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AFTER FORTY YEARS 

THE STORY OF THE CLASS OF '65 
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 



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Being an account of every man who was at 
any time a member of tlie Class 



PREPARED FROM THE BEST OBTAINABLE DATA 
BY 

CHARLES F. RICHARDSON 

Class Historian 






MacCalla & Co. Inc. 

Printers 

237-239 Dock Street 

Philadelphia, Pa. 

GIFT 

BERTRAM SMITH 

OCT 2 A 1933 



PREFACE 



Classmates: — In 1868 a class book was issued telling of 
the life of '65 up to the time of publication. 

In 1890, by request, a quarter-century's story was told, 
and to-day, by authority of the members of '65, assembled in 
reunjon in June, 1905, a forty years' record is sent out — not 
that he who reads may run, but that there may be preserved 
for the future the past lives of some very honorable men, of 
whose record we are not ashamed. The illustrations speak 
for themselves, and it must be admitted there are several 
gray-headed men among them. There are pictures now pre- 
served in permanency that may fade in time through chemical 
action, but the carbon in the ink should certainly be durable. 

The thanks of the class' are specially due to Messrs. Abert, 
Hunt, Kelly and McCammon for pictures otherwise hardly 
obtainable. The large plate is specially an idea of Kelly's^ 
who at no small trouble prepared a plate unlike any other 
ever made, but specially valuable. Other portraits were 
sought for, but could not be obtained. 

As to the literary matter, every one, as far as possible, has 
been asked to speak for himself. Many have done so,- but 
too many, I regret to say, have been written up from informa- 
tion in your Historian's possession. Some could not and 
some did not talk, and he has had to do the best he could. 

As a rule, most of the class have kept in touch with each 
other, and the brotherhood feeling among the members 
of * * Sixty-five ' ' is exceedingly strong. Of this I speak from 



4 PREFACE. 

personal knowledge, and I know of no bonds of association 
that hold stronger or closer together than those of our class. 

The book has been delayed much on account of various 
hindrances, but the work is accomplished at last. 

What is written is prepared from the best obtainable data, 
and much has been left out that was in previous class books ; 
but each of the ninety men who were members of '65, for a 
longer or shorter period, is given all the space possible. 

Reports prepared by the Historian are signed by him, and 
no one regrets more than he that some are so brief. 

There will be a thinning of our ranks in the future more 
rapidly than in the past, and those that are left will need to 
sit closer together in the family circle, with space in their 
memory for those that have gone from us. 

Will each one please keep in touch with * ' Ninety-eight ' ' 
as long as he can ? We want to keep together till the last. 

The class is indebted to the sisters and widows of several 
absent ones for data we could not otherwise have had, and 
they should be at least honorary members of '65. 

The clock strikes twelve, the lamp burns low, but Sixty-five 
will live long after its members have ceased from work. 

Midnight, September 27, 1906. 

Chas. F. Richardson, 

Class Historian. 



HISTORY 

OF THE 

CLASS OK 1865 



WILLIAM STONE ABERT. 

William Stone Abert, lawyer, was bom at Mount Pleasant, 
Washington, D. C, July 27th, 1845; the son of Lieutenant- 
Colonel James W. Abert, United States Army, of the Topo- 
graphical Engineers, and Jane Lenthall Abert, the only 
daughter of William J. Stone, Sr. 

His birthplace was the home of his Grandfather Stone, who 
sixty-five years ago planned the old homestead on the oak- 
crowned terrace, with its massive walls and commanding 
view of Fort Washington, on the beautiful Potomac River, 
where it still remains in a remarkable state of preservation, 

Abert took the four years' course at Princeton, and gradu- 
ated in the class of 1865. 

While in college he displayed superior talent for declama- 
tion, and in recognition of his ability he was elected one of 
the four Junior orators of his class from Whig Hall, and in 
his Senior year was awarded by the American Whig Society 
the first prize in oratory, competed for by the members of his 
class. In the year following his graduation he removed to 
Kentucky; and for two years he studied law in the office of 
Judge George Hoadly, in Cincinnati, Ohio, where he resided. 
At the same time he was taking the regular course at the 
Cincinnati Law School; from which institution he graduated 
with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in April, 1868. 

He was admitted to the bar of Hamilton County, Ohio, on 
May 5th, 1868, and at once established himself in practice at 
Cincinnati and also at Newport, Kentucky. 



6 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

In 1877 he returned to Washington, and has been engaged 
there in the practice of law ever since. During these years 
of practice he has been employed as counsel in many im- 
portant cases before the local courts, and also before the 
Supreme Court of the United States. 




In April, 1889, the Supreme Court of the District of Colum- 
bia, under authority of an act of Congress, appointed Abert 
and Benjamin G. Lovejoy Commissioners to prepare a com- 
pilation of all the statutes in force in the District. This was 
an undertaking of great magnitude, and in consequence of 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 7 

the death of Mr. Lovejoy, in the fall of 1889, Abert was com- 
pelled to perform the work alone. In recognition of his 
valuable services in connection with this compilation of 
statutes, and for providing it with annotations of judicial 
citations, Congress voted him an additional compensation of 
four thousand dollars. 

On the 5th of October, 1875, he was married to Nannie S. 
Hamilton, of Louisville, Kentucky, a descendant of the 
Hamilton family in Maryland, of Revolutionary fame. 

Of this marriage there are two children now living — Jane 
Stone Abert, the wife of John P. Story, Jr., of Washington, 
D. C, and Hamilton Abert, who is engaged in business in 
JSFew York City. 



WILLIAM ARROWSMITH. 

Born at Newton, N. J., November 17th, 1844. Fitted at 
Basking Ridge, N. J., 1860-63. Entered August i8th, 1863. 
Roomed 43 North, 30 and 31 West, and 22 North. Whig. 

After leaving college I taught school for a year, in the 
meantime taking up the study of law. I was admitted to the 
bar at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., in May, 1867. Thereafter I came 
to the city of New York, where I practiced law by myself 
until May, 1876, when I formed a copartnership with John 
Jeroloman, who was a member of the class of '66. That 
copartnership, under the firm name of Jeroloman & Arrow- 
smith, continued until May ist, 1905, when, owing to ill 
health, Mr. Jeroloman retired from active practice. There- 
upon I formed a copartnership with Mr. George W. Dunn, 
under the firm name of Arrowsmith & Dunn. Mr. Dunn had 
been a junior member of the old firm. 

I am located in the same place where I first commenced my 
professional career, viz.. No. 229 Broadway, New York City, 
and having been at this address so long, I feel that I own 
the building. 

I have always enjoyed a fair practice and consider myself 



8 ■ HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

quite fortunate in that regard, and, while not rich, my pro- 
fessional income is sufficient to keep the wolf from the door. 

In 1890 I married Miss Katherine B. Weed, of this city. 
We have two children, a girl of thirteen and a boy of eight, 
and it is said by my admiring friends that they both inherit 
their good looks and ability from their mother. 

During my entire life I have enjoyed, and still do, the best 
of health. I have never sought or held public office, but have 
been contented with a private station. From that vantage 
ground I can look upon and criticise the fellows who are 
struggling with the great questions of the day. 



CHARLES CHAUNCEY BACKUS. 

Born in Baltimore, January 9th, 1843. Entered Princeton 
August, 1 86 1. Roomed at Martin's, 6 East, Duryea's and Mrs. 
Higgins'. Whig. Entered the drug business in Baltimore 
and died in 1871.— C. F. R. 



SAMUEL BAKER. 

Present address, 612 New York Life Building, Chicago, 111. 

Born in Virginia, September 3, 1843. Entered Sopho- 
more class, August, 1862, from Wheeling, W. Va. Roomed 
in North and 8 East. Whig and J. O. Left college in Sep- 
tember, 1864, and joined Gen. R. E. Lee's army, in Boyd's 
Battery of Jubal Early's Corps, and was promoted to a Lieu- 
tenantcy. Served under Lee until after Appomattox. Began 
commercial life as clerk in fall of 1865 in St. Louis, and as a 
manufacturer in Chicago in 1868. Married Louisa Davis 
Mclntire, of Virginia, in 1868, and has two sons and two 
daughters, all members of the Presbyterian Church, of which 
he is an elder. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 




SAMUEL BAKER 



SILAS BALDWIN. 



Born in Harford County, Maryland, in 1845. Joined the 
class in August, 1863. Whig and Zeta Psi. Roomed 22 West. 
Became a physician of high standing in Baltimore. Said to 
have been married twice and has a son in the Navy. Repeated 
letters have failed to bring any response, probably from fail- 
ure to reach him. It is said he has of late years become very 
much of a recluse, except as business calls him from home. — 
C. F. R. 



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WILLIAM JONES BOQNE. 

Born at Wauka, Modur, Songhai, China, in 1846. Fitted 
at Elizabeth, N. J. Entered August, 1862. Roomed 6 North 
and 32 East. Clio. Traveled in Europe for a while and 
entered the Divinity School of the Protestant Episcopal Church 
in West Philadelphia in 1866, and went to Alexandria, Va., 
in January, 1867, the first student there from the North after 
the war. Ordained deacon in St. Paul's Church, Petersburg, 
Va., July 26th, 1868. Served first at Emmanuel Church, 
Athens, Ga., as assistant. January ist, 1869, became rector- 
elect of St. James' Church, Eufaula, Ala. Married January 
27th, in Charleston, S. C, to Miss Mary Caroline DeSaussure^ 
and on November ist left via Panama for missionary work in 
China, reaching Shanghai, January 7th, 1869. Was or- 
dained priest October 28th, 1870. Meeting with much success 
in his work of spreading the Gospel, he was consecrated 
fourth Bishop of Shanghai, October 28th, 1884, with a jurisdic- 
tion extending 1,000 miles westward from Shanghai. In 
1884, Kenyon College, Ohio, bestowed upon him D.D., most 
worthily. He died a few years ago of scarlet fever in China. 
He visited the United States at least three times since his 
graduation, and on one of these visits, I am glad to say, I had 
him as a guest over night at my home, and a most delightful 
evening he gave those gathered around, telling of many 
interesting facts about his work. — C. F. R. 

AUGUSTINE BREESE. 

Born at Serena, La Salle County, Illinois, December i6th. 
1838. Fitted at Mendota Collegiate Institute, 1859-60. 
Entered Jefferson College, Pennsylvania, September, i860. 
After two years there, came to Princeton, August, 1863. 
Roomed at Duryea's, 7 Refectory, and McGinness. Clio. 
Was "Lit." editor. Entered Western Theological Seminary fall 
of 1865 and graduated in 1868. Fortunately I was enabled 
to trace him to Fort Dodge, Iowa, and from there to Adrian, 
Mo., where he wrote me as follows: — C. F. R. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. II 

Forty years ago I was with you for the last time in Prince- 
ton, and now you wish' to know what has happened to me in 
that time. 

I entered the Seminary at Chicago that same year and 
graduated in 1868. I was Hcensed in Chicago and ordained at 
Cherokee, Iowa. I preached a few months near Petersburg, 
lUinois, when my health failed. I was forbidden to do any 
mental work, and for two years I did not even read the news- 
papers. I was married in 1869 to Marion E. Monsell, of Am- 
herst, Mass. We had five children. One died at birth and 
three are still living. 

Our youngest son was killed by an accident in a smelter at 
Rapid City, S. Dak., aged twenty-two years. Of my life I 
have little to tell, for my health failed early in my work, and 
since that time I have been on a farm, four years in a flouring 
mill, four years in implement business, and the rest of my time 
a carpenter and builder, which is still my means of a liveli- 
hood. 

My memories of Old Nassau are very pleasant, though I 
have never in the forty years been there and have seen only 
three or four of my friends of college days. I imagine Prince- 
ton has grown until it would be scarcely recognized as the 
place where we spent so many happy days. 

I am sorry I have not something better to report for your 
work, but my life has been very tame and uneventful. 

Remembering your friendship and sympathy, I am, ever 
your friend and classmate of '65, 

A. Breese. 

ELISHA BUTLER. 
Chapter I. 

ADOLESCENCE. 

"I take myself to task 
Lest, of the fullness of my life, 
I leave an empty flask. ' ' 

My dear Classmates: 

Our esteemed class Historian, in his wide wisdom and bene- 
ficence, has assigned to the writer the role of biographer to our 



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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 



friend and classmate, "Lish" Butler. While our hand is 
somewhat unpracticed in the field of biographical sketching, 
we nevertheless readily recognize the propriety of this assign- 
ment, and therefore cheerfully and unhesitatingly accept it, 
both as a duty and a ' ' labor of love. ' ' For unquestionably 




ELISHA BUTLER 



{negari non potest quin) we have known ' ' Lish ' ' longer and 
more intimately than can be claimed by any other person, 
either living or dead. We have known him "from the cradle 
to the grave, " so to speak. It is true that the grave portion 
of it may be somewhat anticipated in this remark, which event 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I3 

is to be indefinitely postponed, we hope; but at present writing 
we can foresee no likelihood that our long and intimate friend- 
ship can be by any possibility ruptured down to the end of 
life. Hence, though '*Lish" still remains in the flesh, and 
the grave is not his portion yet, and he is enjoying excellent 
health for an "old man," is hale, hearty, and contented, 
without a bodily ache or pain, still maintaining his wonted 
good appetite for his ' * three square meals ' ' a day, never dur- 
ing his forty years of business life being so disabled by sick- 
ness as not to be found at his desk for the duties of the day, 
and to-day holding out a fair promise of possibly still many 
years of business activity before him, the Lord willing — hence, 
I say, and notwithstanding, we hope and expect to continue 
our record of unbroken friendship and companionship to the 
end, and to travel on together and down to the confines of 
"that bourne whence no traveler returns." Such being our 
credentials let no one cavil at or deride our attempt at bio- 
graphy. If, when it is turned out from the printer's hand, 
it should prove unsatisfactory to any one concerned, let such a 
one be assured that no copyright has been secured to deter 
any other ambitious, more brilliant or capable writer from 
essaying to supply our deficiences. 

And here we take our stand, and are prepared to maintain it, 
if necessary, at the point of the bayonet. 

Chapter II. 

A biography as is. 

In undertaking this biography we are overwhelmed with the 
mass of material that we find at our disposal, both in its 
quantity and its quality. The class of '65 was a notable 
class, a great class, and its members have all distinguished 
themselves in their several spheres of activity, reflecting 
honor upon their Alma Mater and their country at large. 
* ' Lish ' ' has fairly well succeeded in keeping up with the pro- 
cession, and has done so without working much "over time." 
To write up a full and complete history of "Lish" would 
require several quarto volumes, but the writer proposes, out 



14 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

of consideration for the present generation, to leave that vast 
work to the future historian, and therefore we shall impose 
due restraint upon our ' * garrulity of old age ' ' and present only 
the salient features, which is about all that would interest the 
gentle reader, even if we may hope to accomplish that little. 

And, first, we resurrect from the dusty, musty tomes of 
time the picture of "Lish" that illumines our title-page, and 
present it as an inspiration, a great moral show and stimulus 
to the rising tide of the youth of our beloved land, especially 
the sons and grandsons of the class of '65 . Gaze upon it, young 
man! Behold that noble brow, that calm, leonine visage, 
that eagle eye looking out unterrifted into the great untried 
future. And, while we are on the subject of pictures, turn 
from this class picture of forty years ago to the one that fol- 
lows, and consider the "ravages of time" as shown in the 
picture of ' ' Lish " as he is to-day, seated under his own "vine 
and fig tree. " Is it not a picture of contentment, of * ' othmv 
cunt dignitate"f Does it not bespeak that the world has 
dealt fairly well with ' ' Lish ' ' ? Or, putting it in a different 
way, that "Lish" has "won out" fairly well? Does it not 
suggest "a simple life," neither poverty nor riches, abstemi- 
ousness in rum. Napoleon, and rebellion? How about "tee- 
totle"? Well, "temperance in all things." Is that not 
enough? Three cheers for "Lish," I say. Gentlemen, are 
you ready? 

Chapter III. 

' ' LISH ' ' RECEIVES HIS ' ' BAPTISM. ' ' 

"The subject of our sketch" had been plodding along 
through the various initiatory stages of ' ' Fresh ' ' year, and on 
up to the latter half of ' ' Soph, ' ' when the class conferred upon 
him a nickname and immortality — ' ' Lish. ' ' Heretofore it 
had been ' ' Eagle, " " Ere we part, ' ' "The Republican party," 
etc. It happened in this way. The class were descending 
from the old Junior recitation room. Now behold a peaceful, 
innocent scene suddenly transformed into probably the most 
riotous and tempestuous ever enacted upon a college campus. 



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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 15 

Reading was the instigator and sponsor of this, and upon his 
devoted head that crime is fixed forever. The suggestion to 
him doubtless arose from the appearance, about that time, of 
our first annual catalogue, in which our names were recorded 
for the first time as Freshmen. Reading must have been 
"polling" over it diligently, as equally so his Bible, of which 
he was a close student, for, be that as it may, the name of 
Elisha appears in both, hence the "joke." Reading, trailing 
down the steps in the rear of the class, found his ready audience 
below on the campus as he reached the stone landing at the 
end of the first flight. From this stand, spying his victim, he 
set up a bellow like a wild Bull of Bashan that reverberated 
t© the remotest confines of "Jugtown. " "Hee-lo, Elisha!" 
he bellowed, repeating it over and over. In about three flips 
of a lamb's tail the class was in a frenzy. The cry was taken 
up tumultuously, and poor * ' Lish ' ' became the centre and 
target of a seething, howling mob thirsting for his gore. At 
first there was nothing for "Lish" to do but remain calm, 
hold them at bay by the glint of his eagle eye, and await 
developments. I said, poor "Lish," but the term probably 
could have been more appropriately applied to his assailants, 
as the sequel will prove. 

The howling, scrouging, and bellowing continued to be 
unanimous. The sun was slowly sinking towards California, 
et cetera. " Halle-lu-jah ! " sung out "Lish," giving vent for 
the first tinxe to his pent-up wrath. The crowd seemed to 
look upon this a little unkindly and there began a lot of shuf- 
fling and treading on corns, during which one unfortunate 
inadvertently projected his bread-basket a little too far over 
the safety line, when, like a flash of lightning, "BifE!" "Ere 
we part, ' ' he went crashing upward through the limbs of the 
old elms as though fired from a catapult. Higher and higher 
he soared above the steeples and tree tops, poised for a moment 
and then, doubled up in a kind of ball, started in on his "home 
run" with about thirty revolutions to a second, and at last 
with frightful momentum struck the sod head first with a 
"sickening thud." The crowd, not yet satisfied, bellowing all 
the while, shoved forward another victim. * ' Bim ' ' and he 



l6 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

went scudding like an empty barrel before a gale, and brought 
up a wreck against the campus iron fence on Nassau Street. 
More bellowings, more scrouging, more touching tender corns. 
The cry was still, ' ' More rum ! " " On, Stanley, on ! " A solid 
phalanx formed, righteously indignant, calling aloud for 
justice. "Lish" braced himself for a final whangdoodle 
effort. "The Republican party what is!" he yelled. "Lay 
on, Macduff ! " In the confusion another bread-basket toppled 
over the safety line, when, * ' Whoof -whizz ! ' ' ' * Great Caesar! 
A ten strike !" he yelled. Ten noble stalwarts bite the grass. 
The situation now called for ' ' Reform, ' ' and committees were 
organized. The disabled were quickly hustled over to Han- 
kins' drug store for sponging oif and general repairs. A 
special committee hurried off for fence rails, bean poles, corn 
stalks, and what not. Dennis and "Jim Stink" were put 
under disguises and empowered as commissioners plenipoten- 
tiary to approach Brown's shoe store from the rear, when "the 
man was not in, " and obtain a couple of cases of rubber boots 
for wading around in the gore without getting wet feet. 
"Lish" himself was active and feeling for his gizzard, when 
there arose the appalling, heart-palsying cry of "John! John!" 
and the next instant ' * Lish ' ' was in his clutches (innocent 
for the guilty, as usual) , and not a * * hide nor hoof ' ' of the 
class was in sight anywhere. * ' Ugh ! Ugh ! What are you doing 
here?" "Nothing, sir," "Whoa, Fan! Then go to your 
room. ' ' Thus ended this ignoble contest between mind and 
matter. 

Chapter IV. 

RECKLESS AUTOMOBILING. 

Such, as faithfully detailed in the preceding chapter, are the 
vicissitudes of life, and such are the horrible transitions as it 
were, from brilliant light to utter darkness. To-day we go at 
the gait of 2.40 on a plank road with tail over the dashboard. 
To-morrow, alas ! we may be standing on our heads, or wallow- 
ing in the gutter. Say, Bill, how is she running? * ' Uzz-uzz ! 
Zip I Uzz-zip-zip-zip ! ' ' Hoor roor ! Spargo — I scatter. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 17 

Chapter V. 

TEMPERANCE LECTURE " LISH " THE HORRIBLE EXAMPLE. 

We now invite our million or more gentle readers to permit 
us to kindly lead them by the hand from the scene of war and 
bloodshed recounted in the preceding chapters to the more 
peaceful walks of college life, lest a further recital of similar 
affairs might mislead the public into believing they were of 
daily and hourly occurrence, and thereby plunge a large per- 
centage of our nation into grief and tears (crocodile) , and pre- 
cipitate an avalanche of unnecessary and futile prayers in 
behalf of educational institutions in general and their hopeful, 
or hopeless, offspring in particular. 

It was a Saturday night, the close of a quarterly examina- 
tion, when the hegira of many who had nearby homes empha- 
sized the few glimmering lights here and there amid deserted 
rooms. A cool evening in the fall, but delightful around a 
bright fire. "Lish" had such a fire, and Sloss and Riggs 
dropped in. The nine o'clock bell tolls the ' * curfew, ' ' and they 
emerge for the post-office, arm in arm, Sloss between. ' ' A 
bully good night for a hot punch, eh ? " said Sloss. ' * Agreed,"" 
said Riggs. ''What's that? Is it good?" said "Lish." 
' ' Good ? " * * O ho ! Certainly,'' said Sloss. So they stopped 
at Hudnut's. First, a big green bottle labeled ' ' Binninger" ; 
then some sugar and nutmeg; lastly some lemons and cigars. 
Soon over the aforementioned fire the decoction was com- 
pounded and three steaming goblets were filled to the brim. 
You have heard of that "nectar of the gods," and perhaps 
many of you have since sampled it, but that so-called "nectar" 
has been sprinting after that ' ' punch ' ' for the last forty years 
and never overtaken it. Oh, delightful, restful Saturday 
evening, amid curling smoke, stories, fun, contentment! But 
being strictly "orthodox," before the clock strikes twelve 
they repair each to his separate abode, and to his "virtuous 
couch," comfortable, happy, and at peace with all the world. 

Next morning they met coming out from Sunday morning 
chapel prayers. "Say, Bob, what was that flavoring extract 
you call 'Binninger?' " curiosity prompted "Lish" to ask. 



l8 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

* ' A very fine article of gin, ' ' replied Sloss. ' ' What ! Do you 
tell me that I have been drinking rum ? ' ' and he passed his 
hand over his abdomen. "It is the first time in my life I 
ever did such a thing, ' ' he continued, reprovingly. And, 
truly alarmed and conscience stricken, at first he proceeded 
on his way to his room, but reflectively. A new light slowly 
dawned upon his benighted mind. After all, had not this so- 
called ' * unholy demon ' ' been somewhat misrepresented ? We 
did not get "tight." We had a good time, and where the 
harm, where the danger? No excess, no "abuse," and why 
need there ever be any? The same moral sense, conscience, 
decency, manhood, stamina, that can grapple and subdue 
temptation to become a thief or immoral, a ' ' grafter " or an 
outcast, should know no other enemy beyond its power to 
throttle. Any other pretence is pure humbug. Now what a 
jackass Noah made of himself! Gets drunk, then curses his 
son. Drunkenness and profanity! A spectacle, indeed, for 
his menagerie, for history, for future ages. Why could not 
that, really interesting old mariner act rational, take his meer- 
schaum, his pretzel, his mug of ' ' Pilsner " or " Liebotschaner," 
or, if he will (in a spirit of more liberality), his schooner of 
Ballantine's double X, and with his "little dog Schneider" 
sit down in the shade of the old "Ark" and be happy? 
(Laughter in the gallery.) 

With such sentiments (ever furiously denounced as specious, 
untenable, dangerous), imbibed thus early in his career, we 
should expect, by all pleadings, precedents, and prophecies in 
such cases, to find "Lish" out in life a miserable wreck 
plunging headlong his downward course to ruin. Well, not 
-exactly. To be low-lived, immoral, and to "wallow" would 
be a temperamental impossibility. Then how about the 
"weak," the humbugs, the sentimental whiners? Let them 
.adhere to their old remedy, the halter about their necks, the 
pen, the straight-jacket. "Lish" has lived a few years, seen 
a few things, and experienced a few experiences, but never 
yet has been able to comprehend how moral character can 
find room for exercise when bound up in a napkin, any more 
than can the muscles tied up in a sling. Once or twice a year 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 19 

"Lish" steps over to enjoy a quiet, disgraceful evening with 
his old classmate, friend, and withal legal counselor, Oscar 
Keen, before his open grate fire. Neither of them have worn 
the ' ' collar ' ' for their own safety. Hence Oscar sometimes 
steps from the room and, after groping over cellar or garret, 
returns, brushing cobwebs off his sleeve, in his hand a. dark 
receptacle containing some unknown vintage, and there for 
the sake of "Auld Lang Syne" they pledge each other in the 
name of ' ' Old Nassau. ' ' But no one has ever caught them, 
nor even suspected them; hence it has come about, since they 
both attend church, that hitherto they have been successful 
in palming themselves off upon their neighbors as Christians 
and respectable citizens. (Loud applause.) 

Riggs, old fellow, "across the stormy waters, ' ' did it harm 
you? Do you regret it? Thou noble, stalwart missionary in 
far-off lands! God bless you, your family, and your labors! 
And thou, too, Carrington — "Carrie, ' ' permit us to add at this 
time, while our thoughts are reveling over time and space — a 
happy greeting to you and yours! Noble fellow, your self- 
sacrificing life-work might surely be abundantly blessed could 
the prayers of the ' 'wicked" avail much. 

Chapter VI. 

REMINISCENCES. 

Reference to our last annual catalogue establishes the fact 
in history that ' ' Lish ' ' stood sixth in his class — alphabetically 
speaking. Satisfactory enough, for it is better to be a little 
inside the line, so as to be fortified on both w4ngs, and to be 
able to look over heads in both directions. Then, again, less 
attention is attracted than if in a position at either end, less 
liability of exciting too much rivalry or envy, and loss of time 
posing for honors and admiration in the one case, and execra- 
tion or contempt in the other. 

"Lish's" fortunate position brought him in order next to 
that sterling old war-horse, Calkins. Later he shifted so as to 
come between Calkins and Campbell, and delightful were the 
little friendships and communings, renewed daily for four 



20 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

years at chapel and recitations, for they were seldom thrown 
together at other times. On this a:ccount "Lish" cast his 
vote in favor of Campbell for class orator (or poet, which, now 
forgotten) , notwithstanding the strong tide of popularity that 
had set in for his competitor, Rankin, the finally successful 
candidate. Calkins, Campbell, old comrades, all hail to you! 
You are remembered to this day most kindly. God bless you 
both! 

* * The mysterious affinity of opposites ' ' truly proved a bond 
of union between * * Lish ' ' and a small circle of his classmates, 
all marked and distinct characters. First, **Tom" Raftery, 
the closest, the most intimate, a friendship continuous and 
unbroken from the first day of * * Fresh ' ' year up to the day of 
his death. Beloved by everybody, an Irishman from the 
crown of his head to the soles of his feet, and never ashamed 
of it; of strong poetic instinct, redundant of speech and ideas, 
ready always to rise and ' ' address the assembly ' ' with or 
without previous preparation; warm-hearted, brave, generous, 
especially to foe; impulsive, brilliant, improvident, untamed. 
Could he but have brought his great gifts under subjection the 
world would have heard from him, and have been richer for 
it. Oh, the long walks and talks through woods, over * ' many 
a field and fallow ' ' ; the ' * air castles ' ' built in the clouds ; the 
brilliant conquests forecasted out in the world yet before 
them; the hopes never to be realized ! 

It may be a revelation to many of the class to learn that, 
during summer vacation of Junior year, Tom sailed for Eng- 
land and married his beloved " Prudence," beautifully referred 
to in his poem on "The Isle of Achill, " published sometime 
before in the * ' Lit ' ' : 

'' Prudence might chide, but Providence blest 
And steered my bark to the boundless west. ' ' 

' * Prue ' ' remained behind in England until Tom had estab- 
lished a foothold in Washington immediately after graduation. 
Meanwhile the weighty secret reposed solely in the bosom of 
* * Lish * ' until last term of Senior year, when it was confided 
to Grim. A portion of one of "Prue's" letters was handed 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. . 21 

him and they watched him read. When he came to the fatal 
words in the body of the letter, * * My dear, dear husband, ' ' 
Grim turned deathly pale and almost collapsed. The secret 
ivas faithfully kept until we were all out "safe in the wide, 
wide world. ' ' 

A whole book could be filled with stories and anecdotes of 
Tom, some side-splitting, some sentimental and romantic, all 
interesting, amusing, instructive. One must suffice here. 
Tom had been preparing a * * Lecture on Ireland, "to be de- 
livered through a portion of New England during the coming 
winter vacation of Senior year, but the term ended before its 
completion, and ' ' Lish ' ' had to leave him in charge of the 
Toom, but with many injunctions about how to manage the 
iire. They both returned to college on the same day, Tom 
from his successful ?) lecturing tour, with a whole armful of 
mishaps and funny experiences, and ' ' Lish ' ' to find the room 
in a delightful state of uproar, as though the ' ' monkey and 
the parrot ' ' had been holding a circus there. As to the stove 
it was almost ruined, for although Tom had diligently piled 
on coal, until coal, ashes and cinders reached the top, he had 
neglected to remove the ashes from the bottom. * * Lish, ' ' 
while lecturing him upon his worthlessness and inefficiency, 
noticed that his long frock coat,' that formerly reached to the 
knees, now barely covered the seat of his trousers. ''What 
have you been doing to your coat ? ' ' After a good deal of 
bantering he finally confessed that to keep from freezing he 
had moved the table as close to the stove as he could get it, 
and stood up to write, and while leaning over with his back to 
the red-hot stove, the first thing he knew his coat-tail was in a 
b)laze. 

Tom was the inventor of a system of harbor defense, un- 
questionably a striking appliance, capable of effective utiliza- 
tion. It attracted a good deal of interest at the time in the 
War Department, among army officers, and members of Con- 
gress and others. Its adoption would have made millions for 
Tom. That, however, would more likely have enriched his 
friends, and he himself have died poor after all. In his enthu- 
•^siasm he squandered money for patents good in this country, 



22 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

Canada, Turkey, China, Japan, and nearly every important 
maritime nation in Europe. Nothing could restrain his over- 
confidence and recklessness. For every well-informed person 
in such matters can well understand what labor, resources, and 
influence are required to successfully land such a vast scheme, 
and how fut^e to attempt it single-handed. He also invented, 
and had patented, a valuable fender for protection of vessels 
at sea ; but though favorably reported upon, he never succeeded 
in procuring its adoption. After all, and at last, poor Tom 
went down in poverty and disappointment. It is a matter 
of sorrow and never-ending regret that a distance of three 
thousand miles, and ignorance of the situation, kept ' ' Lish " 
from taking his hand at his dying bedside. He died in New 
York, March 12th, 1897, while his old chum and firm and con- 
stant friend of over thirty years walked, unconscious of the 
sad scene being enacted, on the opposite side of the continent, 
at far-off Monterey, on the shores of the Pacific. 

In the opinion of the writer Tom Raftery was by all odds 
the most interesting, brilliant, highly gifted, and versatile 
member of our class, and that, but for one fatal defect that 
handicapped him, he might have easily done great things in 
the world. In gentleness, in manliness, in integrity, in pur- 
ity and sincerity of heart, in charity and magnanimity, many 
of us saw in Tom his resembler in ' ' Tom Pinch. ' ' 

Next, in point of esteem and close companionship, Sloss,. 
* ' Count Fosco. " As a rule genial, jovial, cheery, companion- 
able, witty. It is doubtful if many of the class really under- 
stood Sloss. He was a man of deep feeling, and of sensitive 
and tender heart, concealed under a little brusqueness. He 
invariably arose, from some seat in the rear of the room, to 
speak at the evening weekly class prayer meeting. It must 
be allowed that it. is singular evidence of something striking or 
magnetic in the personality of Sloss, in that the writer cannot 
recall a single other fact in connection with these meetings — 
what other members may have spoken or prayed, nor even 
any individual member who took his turn in conducting the 
meetings. Sloss was a good student, had considerable of the 
poetic instinct, and was a great reader of standard works. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 2^ 

But above all he was a ' ' born actor, ' ' and had he adopted the 
stage for his profession, would have undoubtedly attained 
fame and eminence. He was considered a little crusty and 
distant at times, had few real intimates, and was best known 
to the few he chose to reveal himself. A delightful, interest- 
ing, genial companion. There seems to be some mystery at 
the end, but ' ' Lish, ' ' knowing his heart and inner life so well, 
entertains a theory more charitable than some, perhaps. His 
ship was riding a terrible storm, driven from its course by the 
winds and waves towards a rocky coast and certain death. 
Worn out he gave up hope and abandoned effort, forgetting 
that no one should ever totally despair, since "While there is 
life there is hope." The winds and tides may change or sub- 
side. The ship, alas! went down in sight of land with all on 
board. 

Next, Grim. "Absalom." A little sallow Pennsyl- 
vania Dutchman; quiet, reserved, of an analytical and philo- 
sophical bent of mind; 'born to preside in the "Editorial 
sanctum," prognosticated at the time and since fulfilled; a 
statesman. It is not claimed that he should sit with Webster, 
Clay, Blaine, but undoubtedly his broad mental calibre easily 
grasps statesmanship. His worth and mental gifts were 
scarcely perceived by the rank and file of the class. To those 
who skimmed only the surface Grim might have appeared 
cold, distant, phlegmatic; but around a fireside, with those of 
his choice, his nature glowed and his companionship was an 
inspiration, a delight. 

Next, but in an entirely different group, MacMartin. Might 
have been an aristocrat, but that his nature was too broad 
and democratic; a cosmopolitan and cultured gentleman. 
His friendships were too wide and his heart too big to be 
confined within a narrow circle. The mystery is that one so 
capable and useful should die so long before his time. 

Two more. Petty, ' ' Nate Dea, ' ' and Dewing, ' ' Don 
Carlos. ' ' Not in the least commonplace fellows. Quite a 
considerable section of our country has heard from the first 
named. He enjoyed his share of buffoonery, and could yell 
like an Indian slicing scalps ; other times as sedate as an oyster. 



24 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

Gifted with a fine imagination, a word painter, an orator. 
During most of Soph and Junior years he and "Lish" could 
be seen out on long walks, arm in arm; taught ' * Lish, ' ' bless 
him! how to chew tobacco without being suspected, and the 
latter has not forgotten the lesson. Dewing was frolicsome, 
but withal most serious and sedate as occasion demanded. 
He had a laugh like the roar of an ox, varied on down to the 
whinny of a colt. Were he alive, we would ask how about 
that * * medical ' ' letter, which, but for the hard ' ' horse sense ' ' 
of Tom Raftery, who opportunely arrested their flight, the 
one to Canada and the other to Pennsylvania, might have 
ruined their prospects. A prank proving how "the wicked 
flee when no man pursueth. " Dewing died in the harness, 
a worthy, faithful clergyman. 

Note. — "Lish'' gives notice here, lest it may be overlooked, 
that at our next reunion he will move we have an oldtime 
"horn spree" to "shake 'em up." He believes that Logan 
McClellan and ' ' Paide ' ' Leggett are just aching for an old 
rattler once more, but hesitate to propose it or take the 
initiative, on account of their ' ' cloth. ' ' The motion without 
doubt will be carried unanimously. 

"Come, one and all, 
And play foot ball." 

Chapter VIL 

"lish" out in the "wide, wide world." 

With here and there an exception, probably most of the 
class had, long before graduation, determined in their own 
minds, or had determined for them by their friends, their 
future professions or occupations in life, and had begun to 
shape their thoughts and efforts accordingly. ' ' Lish ' ' was 
not one of this favored predestined many. By nature he was 
seldom fitted to create an opportunity; per contra, he seldom 
failed to seize one when presented; it is then something must 
go or " bust. ' ' For be it remembered that for a time he 
bore the nickname ' ' Eagle, ' ' bestowed by MacMartin, and 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 25 

endorsed enthusiastically by the class, upon the discovery of 
the resemblance between the curve of * * Lish's ' ' proboscis 
{pro bono Repuhlico) and an eagle's beak. Certain learned 
Doctors of Knowledge have been wont to declare that animal 
resemblances in man indicate and partake of traits of the 
animal they resemble. In the fox, foxiness ; in the lion, leonine 
traits; in the eagle, aquiline, etc. And was an eagle ever 
known to soil his wings in the dust or soar in the mud ? The 
eagle dies, but never surrenders or dishonors his name. 

' ' Fato profugo! ' ' A child of fate, might and could have been 
one of several types of people, but for that a niche had been 
already hewn out and decreed for him, and already he was 
duly heading for it, only for the time being acquiring the 
requisite preliminary training and experience to fit him for 
his proper place. Had circumstances willed it, under the 
tutelage of the Rev. Doctor Rearden, mentioned later on, he 
might have become a clergyman — a poor one, perhaps, and a 
still poorer pastor, for his too ready penetration of cant, 
hypocrisy, and humbug in himself or his parishioners, unac- 
companied by the indispensable personal requisite of a 
' 'mantle of charity' ' broad enough to hide or condone, would 
have proved a fatal handicap. 

Similarly, with an uncle or brother or elderly influential 
friend, as lawyers or judges, with the influence and opening 
such relationship would have afforded, he might have become 
a skilled and safe counselor in the principles and precepts of 
the law, or even attained the eminence of an incorruptible, 
severe, but just judge. But he certainly would have found 
himself discontented in the uncongenial atmosphere of that 
most narrow-minded and grasping profession of all, that pro- 
fession of chicanery, of ' * sharks ' ' and * * blood-suckers. * ' 
(Present company excepted.) 

Lastly, an.d of choice, a physician, and as such (let no one 
snicker) he would have stood a shoulder above the rank and 
file. But he is satisfied now to have escaped that profession 
of thankless and unrequited drudgery, that profession of un- 
certainty and of groping in the dark. 



26 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

NoTA Bene. — A period of rupture has been reached in this 
biography. ' ' Lish ' ' is dissatisfied. He claims that we have 
been riding our fiery old steed too high in the clouds, and de- 
mands that we descend from such ridiculous, dizzy heights 
to the more prosy, sensible climate of the "ridiculus muss." 
This, in our pride, we have declined to accede to. We propose, 
therefore, to throw up the job forthwith, which, to tell the 
truth, we are growing heartily sick of, and permit ' ' Lish ' ' 
from hereon to assume the ego, and continue his own story in 
his own way. Hence be this our valedictory. Should any 
other member of the class be seeking a competent biographer, 
we hold our services at their command. (Shower of bouquets.) 
Thanks, awfully! Adieu! 



It was my good luck to be born on my grandfather's farm, 
which lies in view of hills and mountains not far from the 
Juniata River. Always having loved hills, woods, streams, 
and country life, it must be that, if I did not inherit this love, 
I imbibed it from my place of birth. Alas ! had I been born in 
the ** slums of a great city," what then might have been my 
fate? I can only congratulate myself upon the escape. My 
father being a Methodist preacher our home was subject to 
frequent changes over a wide territory — Pennsylvania, Mary- 
land, and Virginia. I was carefully brought up, and my early 
surroundings were pure and wholesome. My father's library, 
plentifully supplied with books and literature suited to my age, 
of which I made diligent use, was not without its beneficial 
influence. Not until nine years of age did I begin going to 
school, my first instruction being imparted entirely at home. 
When about sixteen years of age there came a change that 
proved a ' 'turning point" in life. I found myself several hundred 
miles from home, a student and inmate of the ' ' Hudson River 
Institute, ' ' at Claverack, N. Y,, then a flourishing and widely 
known seminary for both sexes. Without being consulted I 
had been installed there, though delighted to go for the change 
and the wider knowledge of the world it promised to open up. 
But no course of instruction was selected for me by my parents. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 27 

nor any future outlined. I was simply turned loose in the 
pasture, to drink at will from this fount of knowledge. There 
I became acquainted with a young man of the name of Stuart, 
who had a brother at Yale College. From Stuart I learned a 
great deal about college life that appealed mightily to my 
imagination. I obtained a catalogue and was much impressed 
by the high sounding titles of the text-books and curriculum, 
and it seemed to me that one who could successfully pass 
through Yale College must hardly fail to come out a great man. 
Then, again, having obtained a copy of Yale College Scrapes, 
I was fascinated with the story of the freedom, joyousness, 
and romance of a college student's life. And at this late day, 
having experienced some of it, I still believe that there is no 
other life in the world quite so marvelously delightful. This 
episode gave birth to a new current of thought and motive, 
and I determined to enter college — Yale, of course — and at once, 
v/ith great zeal, began my preparations; but, strange to say, it 
never entered my thoughts to acquaint my parents with my 
new-born ambition. 

Thus to the thoughtless gabblings of a fellow-student I owe 
a suggestion, by him unconsciously imparted, that was to have 
its influence upon my whole after life. Here in this lovely 
institution, most highly favored by surrounding nature, I 
pursued for two more years my self-imposed task. Blessed 
days! Happy youth! Nature smiling from vale to hilltop 
and making melody in a thousand voices. There from my 
window the "Old Man of the Mountain," reclining against the 
sky, the ' * Mountain House ' ' seeming to hang from a ledge 
on its side ; the broad river flowing at its base ; the wide sweep 
of fields in the foreground. I suspect that I indulged in some 
fancies, dreamed some dreams, and heard small voices, for 
the future began to hold out a meaning. Thirty-four years 
later it was my privilege to stand upon a ledge of this firm old 
mountain in the Catskills, and from the opposite direction, 
with the aid of a glass, look down upon the far-away scene of 
my school days. 

When the time came to take my final departure from this 
beloved school home, I found myself deeply in love with a 



28 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

lovely girl from Cat skill, who for over a year had occupied a 
seat opposite to me at the dining room table, but all the time, 
so far as I could divine, unconscious of the state of feeling that 
she had inspired. I had now arrived at another * * parting of 
the ways. ' ' A battle was on between sense and duty on the 
one hand and inclination, backed by the ''little god," On the 
other. In the end Cupid went down in decisive defeat before 
my victorious cohorts. There were four years at least of 
college before me, so I reasoned; several years more before 
establishment; enforced distance and absence between me 
and the loved one, and I had sense enough left to know that I 
was still only veal; and I had witnessed even thus early a little 
of the inconstancy of the human heart. Love, for me, then 
must take its chances and wait. And so I came away and 
"never told my love, but let concealment like a worm feed 
on my damask cheek." There was really a sequel to this 
some five years later, but this interesting episode must be 
postponed to ' ' our next. ' ' 

Arriving at my then home, still sad and sore from my late 
battle with Cupid, I made known to my father my intentions 
about Yale. ' * But why not Middletown, a Methodist college ? ' ' 
he asked. I stood out stoutly for Yale. But now there was 
to be another * ' turning point, ' ' another hand stretched out to 
turn the prow of my bark. The Rev. Mr. Rearden, a Presby- 
terian clergyman, graduate of Princeton, and intimate friend 
of my father, would have Princeton for me or nothing. He 
took a lively interest in deciding the matter, even wrote to the 
college authorities and obtained a rebate of the entire tuition 
fees. He went further and endeavored to obtain an allowance 
from the Presbyterian Board of Education, but was blocked on 
the ground of my not intending to join the ministry of that 
faith — these favors being asked on account of my father being 
a clergyman. That settled it, for my father paid the bills, 
and it was for me to lighten the burden, since several other 
members of the family remained to be provided for. 

So I sorrowfully bid adieu to Yale ; but I am not sorry now. 
Yet who can tell what might have been the difference in pros- 
pects, as between Yale and Princeton? Certainly there would 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 29 

have been a difference in associations, and I am sure my path 
would have taken a different turn. My business life would 
have been different. I should not have had a permanent 
home in the same town I now live in. I should not have 
married the wife I did. Then, again, I was really prepared to 
enter "Soph" year in the fall of '60, but a slight cause led to 
postponement till '61. But for this, and had I entered * * Soph' * 
year in '60, I should have been in the class of '63, or had I 
entered *' Fresh" I should have been in '64. Again, had I 
entered " Soph " in '61, I should still have been in '64. But 
I really entered "Fresh," grand old '65. Saved! (Loud 
applause.) Upon such trivial things great and small things 
turn. 

Chapter VIII. 

PRINCETON, Ho! 

On the train up from Philadelphia no badges were needed to 
evidence the presence of a goodly number of seasoned sons of 
' ' Nassau, ' ' their flittings through the train and hilarious greet- 
ings sufficiently identifying their calling. I rode up from the 
"Basin" in a stageload of them and was the object of their 
frequent glances — an omen, I feared, of a day to come when it 
might be my fate to be led forth a victim of the mysterious 
rites of Underground College life. The stage, having duly 
distributed its passengers at the various college entrances, 
lastly left me at the hotel, and I lost no time in crossing over 
and presenting myself at the door of the President's mansion. 
Lifting the knocker, the venerable President himself responded 
in person. Handing in my credentials, he perused them with 
moving lips and in an audible whisper. Then, "Where are 
you stopping?" "At the Nassau Hotel, " I replied. "That 
will not do. You must come right here. Have you had your 
supper?" And, before I could even protest, I was almost 
' * yanked ' ' into the dining room and seated at one end of a long 
table, already garnished on both sides by an ample representa- 
tion of my future classmates, innocent "lambs" rescued like 
myself from the * ' wiles of Satan ' ' lurking in the hostelry 



30 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

across the way, and now gathered in the fold under the pro- 
tecting aegis of that good man, and safely shielded, as he be- 
lieved, from that ever-present terror that troubled his anxious 
heart, the opportunity and temptation of the "first glass." 
While possible for me to name nearly every member of this 
group of novitiates, Tom Raftery alone stands out in my mem- 
ory distinctly and unmistakably. There, with open, frank 
countenance, always a gifted conversationalist, he was talking 
away in his easy, entertaining style. Thus this scene, this 
vivid picture of my first experience in college. 

Later in the evening, not yet sunset, we drifted together at 
one of the campus gates, and, at his suggestion, started on a 
walk, heading towards that famed suburb in college history, 
' ' Jugtown, ' ' during which a friendship took its root never to 
be arrested or broken until death. Let my pen here, briefly, 
chastely, saliently, uncover a smouldering incident in the life 
of our picturesque friend and classmate, confided in this 
walk. Most of life's problems, it would seem, are worked out 
through sorrow and suffering, but in the end we can look back 
and see the "blessing in disguise." And so with Tom. 
Although truly happy in this land of his adoption, and never 
lacking hosts of friends, the mainspring of his expatriation 
from his native land was sorrow and disappointment. A 
"little girl" had been left behind, many years before, on that 
island home described by him so beautifully in his poem, the 
" Isle of Achill, ' ' written while a student at Andover: 



' 'There is an isle in the distant sea, 
Where the billows are rolling wild and free, 
And are lashing the shore with many a shock ; 
But it heeds them not, 'tis of granite rock. ' ' 

He had cast "sheep's eyes" at this "little girl" over the 
pews at church, and she seemed to smile back encouragement. 
So at last he entrusted his fate in a letter at the hands of a girl 
friend of both. No answer ever came and he went to sea. 
There had been treachery here (not suspected at the time or 
known until long after), and treachery is always base and 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 31 

contemptible ; but in this instance it was an instrument over- 
ruled for a better purpose. Tom, but for this, might have 
married there and settled down, a plain tiller of the soil, or 
later, when burdened with a family, have crossed the sea for 
pick and shovel. Then where this splendid opportunity for 
education, for friends, and a broader life? Though Tom had 
never heard from the girl or set foot upon his native land since, 
his mind was full of it, and he was living it all over again. 
"Mr. Raftery,'' I said, "there is something wrong ; it will all 
come to light. You love the girl, sir, and will marry her yet." 
"No; impossible. It is dead long ago; it is all over." We 
shook hands. "You will marry her, sir," I said. 

During ' ' Soph ' ' summer vacation he was called to Europe 
by the death of his father. He met the girl; it was all ex- 
plained. He came back engaged, radiant, happy. The 
mail bags groaned. For a time his ' ' course of true love ' ' ran 
smooth, by fairy lands and ' ' sweet forget-me-nots that grow 
for happy lovers, ' ' and murmured "under moon and stars. ' ' 
Then suddenly rocks and whirlpools. There were plots. 
There were ** treasons, stratagems, and spoils." The battle 
raged on two continents, largely under my eye and general- 
ship. I forcibly intercepted, tore in shreds, and consigned to 
the flames a letter, cruel and unjust. I swore by my faith in 
the lady. I caged my man, tried to keep him sane until the 
Junior summer vacation came to my relief, then turned him 
loose to take ship once more for Europe. Returned from 
vacation, but before we reached hand-clasp I discerned afar 
off the dove of * 'peace, sweet peace' ' mantling his brow, * 'the 
sun of sweet content re-risen, and all things well. ' ' Prudence, 
' ' Prue, ' ' was his wife. 

While we are still in "Jugtown, ' ' and to illustrate the easy 
transition "from the sublime to the ridiculous," we were 
walking over this same ground, this time in winter, my arm 
on Tom's shoulder. A snowdrift lay across the sidewalk 
ahead of us. Just when opposite, and at "the psychological 
moment, ' ' I landed Tom head first in the drift. To forestall 
execration upon my head, and to arrest misplaced sympathy 
for Tom, it need only be stated that he confessed that he was 



32 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

just on the second of changing places with me, had I not been 
too quick for him. 

Chapter IX. 

ANOTHER LINK. 

Well, we got back from ''Jugtown. " For the next few 
days there was plenty to occupy and interest us — examinations, 
assignment to our rooms, selection of a club for board, etc. 
We had accepted an invitation to Smythe's club first, and 
later to Halsey's, but decided on Smythe's. The choice was a 
mere toss-up of a penny, but a weighty decision it proved for 
me, another link in the chain of overruling events, as was later 
developed. The club had one or more representatives from 
each class, the late Harlan P. Peck, however, being the only 
Senior. During the latter half of the term the ' ' grub ' ' had 
been growing very poor and there was dissatisfaction. Smythe 
himself was mostly absent at meal times. One evening our 
bill of fare consisted of bread and butter, syrup, crackers, tea, 
and a large "hunk" of cheese. Peck, always full of pranks, 
cut out a deep square block from the cheese, filled up the hole 
with syrup, then sliced off a thin piece from the block and 
neatly fitted a cover over the syrup. The next day at noon 
we had an elegant ' ' lay out. ' ' The table fairly groaned under 
the weight of plenty. Smythe himself, for the first in a long 
time, occupied his usual seat at the head of the table. After he 
had finished carving, and all had been helped, he threw down 
carving knife and fork and began an oration. He declared 
that he considered the proceeding of the night before an insult, 
and practically a notice to quit, which he proposed to do at the 
close of the following day, which would end an even week. He 
went on to state that he had spent all the money on the club, 
and his own proportion besides, and still was at least a hun- 
dred dollars in debt. As he put it, in good, broad English,. 
' * I have worked my very guts out, and can't seem to make it 
go to your satisfaction, and so I shall quit. ' ' With that he 
got up and went out, without eating his dinner. This was a 
' ' stunner, ' ' entirely unexpected, and for a little while every- 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. $$ 

thing was in a hum, but the unanimous sentiment worked out 
was that we must stick together. Peck assumed the leader- 
ship and, beginning with the first man next to Smythe's chair 
on the left, and so on categorically around to me the last, on 
Smythe's right, put the question, "Will you take charge?" 
Every one positively declined to assume the responsibility, 
pleading lack of experience, etc. "Now, Butler, it all rests 
with you, ' ' Peck said, and the whole club centered their gaze 
upon me. "All right," I said. "Smythe's bad luck is not 
very encouraging, and I am entirely without experience, but 
there are just two weeks of the term left, and in that time I 
can probably demonstrate to my own and your satisfaction 
whether I can handle the job successfully or not. ' ' They 
gave me a round of applause. I started in with a clean slate, 
and came out at the end of the term just fourteen cents ahead. 
Meanwhile all were delighted, and as for myself, I had na 
further misgiving about the success part of it. 

It ran along for little over a year when two members of '64, 
Mathews and Heverin, called at my room with an offer to 
take charge of a " select club ' ' then being organized. I was 
told that I bore the reputation of keeping the ' ' best managed 
club in town, etc. ' ' The amount of board proposed was to be 
just double what I had been handling, and I had the privilege 
of bringing with me any members of my old club I might 
desire. In the end I accepted the offer, taking MacMartin 
with me, no others wishing to pay the higher rate. I kept 
this club to the end. 

This incident is mentioned not for self-glorification, but in 
explanation that a few days before I had received a letter from 
my father stating that my expenses were very much higher 
than he had anticipated, and, added to those of my two 
sisters also at college, made him doubt his ability to carry us 
all much longer. Upon receipt of this letter I had privately 
decided in my own mind that at the end of the term I would 
withdraw from college and strike out for myself. Oppor- 
tunely I was spared this disappointment by the fortunate 
circumstance of a club, already organized and in running order, 
dropping down, so to speak, in my lap. This aid was further 

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34 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

supplemented by my traveling for the American Tract So- 
ciety during vacations on a salary and expenses paid. Alto- 
gether, I practically paid my own way through college, and 
without feeling the burden, for it seemed to come to me very 
naturally and easily to manage the club, and I did so with a 
minimum expenditure of time. 

Chapter X. 

PRIDE GOETH before A SPILL — "lISH," SLOSS, AND TOM 
RAFTERY, EACH IN THE ORDER NAMED, " MET THE ENEMY 
AND WERE THEIRS. ' ' 

Declamation always interested me, and the first time I had 
the opportunity to ' ' show off ' ' before the class they promptly 
set me down as an aspirant for * ' Junior Orator ' ' honors ; but 
had I ever entertained such an ambition, which was not the 
case, the first electioneering contest for nominations that I 
witnessed would have completely cured me. I never cared 
much for empty honors, but would have welcomed a sub- 
stantial medal won in a fair contest. In Junior year, therefore, 
I entered the lists as a contestant for one of the two prize 
medals, first and second, offered by Clio Hall for declamation. 
I counted on capturing first prize easily. Tom Raftery assured 
me that it would be " a mere walkover ' ' for me. My conceit 
had been further puffed up by two recent successes in Clio 
Hall, following close together. On the first occasion the 
Hall happened to be crowded. My voice was just right ; I felt 
right ; the full Hall put me on my mettle, and I had not uttered 
3. line before every eye was fixed upon me, and I knew that I 
had "captured my audience." The applause was very gratify- 
ing, and unmistakably hearty and sincere. It was the custom 
for members to arise and offer criticisms on such performances. 
Several did so in this case, one in particular, Joe Oat, of '64, 
pronouncing it as fine an effort as he. had ever heard. Tom 
Raftery came to me in the Hall and said, ' ' Elisha, you have 
great powers, and it is your duty to cultivate them. ' ' 

Just a week later I was astounded, upon entering the Hall 
and consulting the Bulletin board, to find my name down for 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 35 

another recitation. I had not expected anything of the kind 
to follow so soon, and was caught totally unprepared; but I 
had to do something or stand a fine. All I could think of that 
was down pat in my memory was Longfellow's * ' Excelsior, ' ' 
old as the hills and worn threadbare, and I felt sure that the 
boys would * * go for me ' ' unless I could give it some kind of a 
twist to vary its monotony. So I assumed the sing-song tone 
and manner of a schoolboy ' ' speaking ' ' his first * * piece, ' * 
working my fingers, trying to look scared to death, and now 
and then wiping off a tear. It went through with * ' bells on, ' * 
and I considered myself lucky. Only a few members happened 
in the Hall at the time, but later it filled up to overflowing. 
When * * miscellaneous business ' ' was reached and motions 
were being made, often humorous and some impossible, Joe 
Oat again arose and, in a very impressive manner, addressed 
the chair upon the very fine effort and "great intellectual 
treat ' ' the Hall had witnessed earlier in the evening, mention- 
ing me by name, and hfe thereupon moved that it be repeated 
for the benefit of those who had come in late. He did this in 
mischief, of course, and to "bore" me. The motion was 
carried with a rush, and the chair directed me to proceed. 
Now I had no intention of making a fool of myself a second 
time if I could avoid it, but I was at my "wits' end ' ' to know 
how to get out of it, for I had to do something or stand a fine 
which a merciless committee might afterwards refuse to remit. 
I started for the rostrum, * * all at sea, ' ' but as my foot touched 
the first step my ' ' inspiration ' ' came. I gave them a low 
bow, almost prostrating myself in the dust, then started in 
on poor old * ' Excelsior, ' ' wildly gesticulating with arms and 
legs, mostly my legs. The audience looked disappointed, 
disgusted, ashamed, and "You are making an ass of yourself!" 
was plainly written on their faces. When I reached the 
fourth line I paused a second, then let out smartly, "Whoa, 
Fan!" with an accompanying jerk on imaginary reins. Those 
sober faces were transformed in a hurry, and it was sometime 
before the uproar allowed me to proceed. Skipping the second 
and third verses, I took for the next the one with the ' ' pine 
tree's withered branch, "the "awful avalanche," etc. This 



36 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

time I let out "Whoa, Fan!" with a frightful yell, a leap in the 
air, and a jerk on the reins. Again I had to pause for the 
racket to subside. All this time my thoughts were busy; the 
turmoil worked up greatly exceeded my expectations, and I 
dreaded a "tumble. ' ' I felt around anxiously for the ' 'psy- 
chological moment ' ' to let myself down and quit. Like an 
inspiration two more verses came to my mind that would 
round it out as a work of "art." My next was about the 
maiden who begged this foolhardy youth to turn back and rest 
his weary head upon her breast. I reached forth and made 
a grab for the "fair creature," folded her to my palpitating 
breast, looked down fondly and tenderly upon her tearful 
face, patting the while her "damask cheek." Then, with 
unearthly pathos and quavering voice, murmured, ' ' Whoa-ho- 
ho, Fa-ha-han!" The boys were writhing in their seats, gib- 
bering, blubbering, some crying. One Rosecranz, on my right, 
was hanging over the arm of his chair in a semi-hysterical 
condition, slobbering over a spittoon. It was several minutes 
before I could proceed. This was really the climax, and I felt 
very anxious, but it needed another verse to round it out and 
avoid an abrupt ending. The next verse was up among the 
snow-covered peaks, the "pious monks of St. Bernard," and 
the "voice like a falling star." I got old "Whoa, Fan!" up 
alongside the moon, then let her slide down the snowbanks 
slowly, gently, with a voice keyed up to a high tenor just au- 
dible from the clouds. My impromptu effort ended apparently 
just right. It was a long time before I heard the last of it. 

With the prestige of these two apparent successes, there 
were no misgivings in my mind but that I should capture first 
prize. There was no competitor that I regarded as my supe- 
rior, if even my equal, in conception and rendering of a piece of 
declamation suited to my tastes and voice. On this occasion 
I determined to put in the shade all of my previous efforts 
and inscribe my name high on the tablets of Clio Hall's famed 
elocutionists. Thereupon I commenced a series of exercises 
intended to strengthen my voice, particularly the lower tones, 
always effective, to meet the demands of the composition I 
had selected for rendering. To this end I sought the fields and 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 37 

woods, where I might practice without being mistaken for a 
limatic. In my ignorance of how to properly cultivate the 
vocal chords, I ended in almost ruining my voice for the time 
being before I realized what damage was happening. On the day 
of the contest I tried to remedy this by sucking lemons, which 
helped very little, if it did not actually do more harm. I began 
to feel demoralized and gloomily scented defeat before I had 
entered the Hall. Nevertheless, I hoped that it might come 
around all right at the last when I should reach the rostrum. 
My name was called among the first. I took my place, and with 
the opening, and for a little while after, all seemed well, but 
when I reached such forcible passages as ' ' O Comrades ! 
Thracians! Warriors! If we must fight, let us fight for our- 
selves ! If we must slaughter, let us slaughter^our oppressors," 
etc., my voice rattled like an old tin pan. Deeply mortified 
and disappointed I left the stage direct for my room, not any- 
where in sight of even the second prize. Tom Raftery and 
Sloss sympathized with me, not, however, with the least ap- 
parent foreboding of the similar fate that awaited each of 
them. 

SLOSS TAKES HIS LITTLE PILL. 

Sloss was a competitor for a prize in Whig Hall, some kind 
of an original production, just what I fail to remember. He 
had been approached to withdraw, for it was deemed a fore- 
gone conclusion that he would be sure to capture the prize. 
This he good naturedly agreed to do. Later he discovered 
some bad faith and withdrew his agreement and announced 
that he would compete after all. To Tom and myself he con- 
fided that he proposed to take the prize to teach them a lesson. 
The contest took place, but Sloss did not receive either first or 
second prize. 

raftery's turn. 

Supremacy in original poetry was unhesitatingly accorded 
to Tom Raftery after Peck left college. A first and second 
j>rize for poetry was offered by the ' ' Lit ' ' and Tom entered 



38 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

his poem, "Cleopatra on the River Cydnus, " a pretty poem, 
full of imagery and rhythm. Notwithstanding our luck Tomi 
was not in the least dismayed, and Sloss and myself fully 
shared his confidence. But he took neither first nor second 
prize. And so the three would-be champions were left to 
chew the cud of their wrath and disappointment at their 
leisure and convenience. 

Curious to understand the reason of Tom's failure I later 
attempted a critical examination of this poem, and the mystery 
was no doubt explained. It contained several faults of metre 
and several solecisms, fatal defects in a contest of that kind. 
Otherwise it was more meritorious and contained more real 
poetry (in my opinion) than the successful poem. That was 
always the trouble with Tom. It was hard to get him down 
to a real painstaking effort. He must needs dash off every- 
thing in a hurry, and in the mood it found him. Upon these 
defects being pointed out he only laughed and refused to con- 
sider them. As he put it, he did not propose to hamper his 
thoughts by any such narrow rules as metre, etc. As to Sloss, 
he was no doubt the victim of over-confidence and a disposi- 
tion to view the abilities of his competitors with more or less 
contempt. Sloss was the object of a good deal of ' * hero wor- 
ship ' ' at one time, both by some of the upper and lower class- 
men, and he may have been a little overrated in some things, 
but in his specialty of impersonation and character repre- 
sentation he certainly had no equal in college. 

Chapter XI. 

PROF. ELISHA BUTLER, A.B., PRINCIPAL OF CLINTON ACADEMY, 
EAST HAMPTON, L. I. 

Again I do not create an opportunity, but seize one, another 
link in the chain of events by which a future was being worked 
out for me; and had any link in the chain snapped, I should 
never have become a railroad man. 

As the days drew near when old '65 must **step down and 
out" into the world, there had been floating around through 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 39 

the college an invitation to some son of Nassau whom it might 
concern to accept the prineipalship of Clinton Academy, East 
Hampton, Long Island. When this invitation came my way, 
just two weeks before final examination, I promptly stepped 
into the breach. I readily obtained permission to absent my- 
self from further attendance upon the college exercises, passed 
my final examination privately, reluctantly bid adieu to dear 
Old Nassau, and set forth in quest of my new field of success or 
failure. Thus, before I had matured any plans of my own 
for my future, this opening, unexpectedly presented, brought 
the issue to a close. 

My tenure of office at East Hampton, though brief, a little 
less than two years, was well suited to my tastes and tempera- 
ment, a real romance and delight. A quaint old settlement it 
was, quaint people, quaint names for local points of interest. 
Though isolated from populous centres, less than twenty 
miles from Montauk Point, its people were remarkably intelli- 
gent, well educated, well-to-do. It was a favorite resort of 
refined families from the cities during a greater portion of the 
year. My window, within sight and sound of the waves, pre- 
sented old ocean in all its moods and changes through all the 
seasons — a new and refreshing experience to me coming from 
far inland life. Teaching proved to be both interesting and 
congenial to me, especially so as the responsible head of the 
Academy. Early after my installment I conceived the project 
of arousing sufficient interest to erect a more modern and com- 
modius building, with a view of enlisting patronage throughout 
the island and regaining the reputation this Academy for- 
merly enjoyed, for it counted among its former pupils a Miss 
Gardner, who afterwards became the wife of one of the na- 
tion's Presidents. A grandson of Jonathan Edwards once 
introduced himself as a former student. Among my own 
pupils were two young men rounding out their final prepara- 
tion for entrance to Yale College, one of whom after gradua- 
tion became District Attorney of Suffolk County, Long Island. 
There were a number of other well advanced students in the 
higher branches, and I found it necessary to do some hard 
"polling" in order to keep in advance of my classes. In 



40 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

looking over my field and all its advantages, it seemed to me 
that I was fortunately placed and had dropped down into an 
ideal life, where I could happily spend the remainder of my 
days. And here, probably, I should have remained anchored 
for life, had not a broader sphere been marked out for me by 
powers over which I had no control. But, true to my nature, 
it required something more than my own volition and initiative, 
something violent, to rupture ties already formed. 

It was my policy and I succeeded fairly well in obtaining 
the friendship and co-operation of the older scholars of both 
sexes in maintaining discipline, and a most excellent tone 
pervaded the school. One young chap, however, undertook 
to make himself an exception and a thorn in our side. After 
every other means failed to bring him to a better state of 
mind, I gave him a thrashing in one of the upper rooms, then 
locked him in during recess. He managed to reach the ground 
through an upper window and, sliding down from the balcony 
(like any member of the class of '65 would have done), went 
home. After school hours I called upon his father, a retired 
sea captain, bluff and bronzed, whom I found in a furious pas- 
sion, utterly blind and unreasonable, unfit to talk to. The 
boy reported that I had pounded him with a chair leg, and 
that he was covered with bruises and welts. The father an- 
nounced that he should withdraw his three children from 
school, demand of the Trustees my dismissal, and lastly seek 
redress in the courts. I found the town in quite a furor over 
the gross and exaggerated stories spread by the family, and 
even my best friends wore blanched countenances ; but I soon 
turned the tide by exhibiting the stick, a small dry sprig that 
had broken in pieces after the first few blows. The Trustees 
when applied to preserved ' ' a masterly inactivity ' ' and failed 
to obtain their quorum of three members. One of them 
privately advised me to keep a diligent lookout for an oppor- 
tunity to ' ' lick ' ' another boy, and even to stretch a point, if 
necessary, to find an excuse for so doing. As to the law, I 
heard nothing further about it. The old Captain, however, 
true to his threat, withdrew his children from school, and with 
them followed a delegation of the children of sympathizers and 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 4I 

friends. This exodus directly affected my income, for the 
Trustees allowed me the entire tuition fees, together with free 
fuel and free rental of the building. Had all this happened in 
later and more mature years, I have no doubt that I could have 
summoned to my aid a sufficient amount of personal tact to 
have easily healed the breach with the old Captain, but in those 
days I had little humor for practicing diplomacy. Further- 
more, I fancied that even my friends were growing lukewarm, 
or at least were neutral, where I felt they should be active 
partisans. At best it seemed ' ' a house divided against itself," 
a fatal condition in which to expect that harmony and co-opera- 
tion necessary in a small community of that kind. I was far- 
sighted enough to perceive that the future here would be uphill 
work, and that my usefulness was about at an end. The 
novelty also had worn off, and I began to feel that after all it 
was not the place for me in which to spend a lifetime. My 
resignation was therefore tendered, to take effect at the end 
of the term, and I began packing up with the intention of pro- 
ceeding to my father's home in Pennsylvania. Too late my 
friends, not anticipating this radical action on my part, began 
to flock around me with efforts to dissuade me. 

Chapter XII. 

My bark once more is launched upon the seas, jato profugo, 
heading for a port it never reached. Again I am to be influ- 
enced by others — not that I am ever dissuaded from purposes 
of my own, or overruled by superior or inferior judgment, but 
by the shaping of a predestined lif ework. Three more people 
appear, each one an essential link in the chain. 

While at Princeton, being a Methodist, I had been excused 
from Sunday chapel exercises to attend services at my own 
church. There I gravitated to the choir gallery and became 
acquainted with a young business man of the town, who became 
a frequent visitor to my room in college. He left Princeton 
about the time I did to go into business in Newark, N. J. 
Upon leaving East Hampton I stopped off to visit him before 
proceeding to my home in Pennsylvania, but never got any 
farther, and this city has been my permanent home ever since. 



42 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

While at East Hampton I did a kindness to a summer 
visitor which he seemed to appreciate more than the act de- 
served. Aware of the rupture, he exacted a promise that I 
should visit him when I passed through Newark. I did so at 
his New York office. Through him I was introduced to and 
engaged by the North America Life Insurance Co. as one of 
its Agents. My Princeton friend halted me at Newark, and my 
East Hampton friend anchored me there. 

Again, while at Princeton I became acquainted with a 
member of the class of '66, and about three years after my 
entrance into the insurance business I met him in Cortlandt 
Street, New York. It was through him I found an introduction 
into the service of the Pennsylvania R. R. Two years later 
I became Chief Clerk and Cashier at Jersey City. Two years 
later still I became Agent in charge. This devious path to 
my lifework terminated in 1874, nine years after graduation; 
but the experience had been both interesting and profitable. I 
should not be willing to part with it. 

Chapter XIII. 

"lish" becomes a benedict. 

We now turn back a few leaves of time to introduce an 
episode, the most important in any man's life, my marriage. 
Had I never sat in the Methodist choir at Princeton, and 
through that circumstance have become a close friend of the 
young business man previously spoken of, it is not at all 
improbable that I should still be keeping company in single 
blessedness with our reprehensible classmate, Joe Pennington. 
Dan Grummon only lately has saved his bacon. The lady in 
question, my wife and companion of thirty-seven years, is cousin 
to this Princeton choir friend ; the latter responsible for heading 
off my journey to Pennsylvania, and hence for the train of 
events that followed. Now, though always a "ladies' man " to 
a degree — that is, appreciative of ladies' society preferably to 
that of men, and can, I think, make myself acceptable to their 
society when occasion demands (pardon my vanity) — yet 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 



43 



never anywhere have I applied for an introduction to a lady, 
nor, until circumstances ripened the acquaintance, sought 
the society of one. Like everything else, such things had to 
come to me unsought. With a temperament that naturally 
prefers retirement, I pushed myself not at all for a lodgment 
in Newark society, and at most had but a bowing acquaint- 
ance with any ladies. Busy building up my business interests, 
my mind was not at all occupied in matrimonial affairs. 
Therefore I claim that I was a promising candidate for a state 
of single blessedness. But fate, that had ever been partial 
to me, decreed that it should be otherwise, and kindly stepped 
in to rescue me from that lonely, selfish, undeveloped life, 
and even long before had begun the work of maturing for me a 
life-mate, a fair-haired, sunny-faced maiden dwelling on the 
shores of Lake Ontario, and rounding out her college days. 

If marriages are decreed in Heaven, as many worthy people 
declare, then surely such a one, weighing all the circumstances. 




GRANDCHILDREN, TAKEN BY LISH HIMSELF. 



44 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

must have been mine. How otherwise could we ever have 
been brought together? She, hid away from my path by the 
hilltops of northern New York; I, a sojourner and wanderer 
here and there in five different States of our land. Never once 
crossing each other's path, nor having the least knowledge of 
each other's existence, till time was consummated and all 
things fulfilled; then one day my zigzag path reaches its end. 
I crossed a Newark street and, casually lifting up my eyes, 
there, sitting at a second-story window, behold! my future 
wife, the last link of the chain, a cousinship, forged in a Prince- 
ton choir four years before. 

Chapter XIV. 

A BLOW THAT KNOCKED " LISH " STIFF. 

At the close of the season of '92 at the seaside, as we were 
departing, I turned a farewell glance upon our closed-up home 
and remarked to my wife, ' ' I wonder what will happen ere we 
return ? ' ' Long after she reminded me that I had several 
times repeated the same remark during our packing up, and 
she wanted never to hear it again. Who can tell whether or 
no premonitious of evil visit us, but which in our dullness fail 
to make a lodgment in our minds ? Truly a great deal was to 
happen bundled up in that one year, a load almost too heavy 
for mortal to carry, and the last of happiness for me in many 
a long day. 

Upon arrival at my ofhce I found developments had cropped 
out indicating that our accounts had been tampered with 
and our books mutilated. Later, an exhaustive examination 
revealed an astounding defalcation, one of the heaviest known 
on the road. The thief, my assistant cashier, always hereto- 
fore apparently most upright and trustworthy, but, as it 
turned out later, a, most accomplished scoundrel, promptly 
skipped to parts unknown, but later was apprehended, and 
after three hard-fought trials landed in State's prison. The 
amount of his bond failed by a large sum to reimburse me the 
amount of the shortage, and under the terms of my own bond 
I was responsible to the Company for the difference. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 45 

After an examining committee from the Accounting De- 
partment at Philadelphia had been on and confirmed our 
previously ascertained figures, a special messenger was dis- 
patched to make a demand upon me to make good the short- 
age. I could do no more than tender all that I possessed, but 
this would fall far short of the required amount. In answer 
to my inquiry, I was informed that the next step would be 
taken by the Legal Department against my sureties, a Bond- 
ing Company, and this act would necessarily carry with it my 
dismissal. This was the first time, in all my long service with 
the Company, that I had ever received at their hands any- 
thing that seemed hasty or unkind. It was a hard message 
to carry home to my family, but, strange to say, I sat down to 
my evening meal in a calm and unperturbed state of mind, a 
brief surcease before the coming days of trouble. 

Later in the evening, with a copy of my bond, I called upon 
Our classmate, Oscar Keen, for an interpretation of its full 
legal significance. Alas ! too true, it swept from me everything 
that I possessed. Even had an earthquake swallowed up 
everything, I should not have been absolved from the hard 
conditions of the bond. Then it was, through the dark 
watches of the night, I wrestled with the full realization of the 
awful disaster that had fallen upon me. It was little slumber 
I could snatch from trouble, and my wife, equally struck dumb, 
told me afterwards that I kept murmuring in my moments of 
unconsciousness, "Too bad! too bad!" When morning 
dawned, and she had left the room, my troubles settled down 
upon me with crushing force — this the first and only serious 
trouble in all my favored life. Behold the utter ruin that 
stared me in the face — my position and livelihood gone, and 
with it prestige, reputation, home, the savings of a lifetime, 
everything gone at fifty years of age! Can anyone wonder 
that I walked the floor, wringing my hands in anguish and 
despair? I had done no wrong, I reasoned; no mismanage- 
ment, nor neglect, nor fault had been charged or even suspected. 
In my misery I questioned the justice of being so afflicted — 
like Job of old — and all for the sins of another. Then, truly, 
as I believe, in this hour of agony, there came a message of 



46 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

peace direct from Heaven, that source that never deceives 
nor fails. There, suspended upon the wall, hung my "Silent 
Comforter, ' ' which hitherto had escaped my eyes, and here is 
the message of comfort I read: 

' 'Trust in the Lord, and do good; 
So shalt thou dwell in the land, 
And verily thou shalt be fed. 
The steps of a good man are ordered 
Of the Lord. Though he fall, he 
Shall not be utterly cast down; 
For the Lord will lift him up. 
He shall bring forth thy righteousness 
As the light, and thy judgment 
As the noonday. ' ' 

It was like a burst of sunshine through a dark cloud upon a 
weary traveler. My mountain of trouble rolled from my 
shoulders like Christian's pack in the story of Pilgrim's Pro- 
gress. From that hour, though many dark hours were to 
follow, I never doubted my ultimate triumph over all difficul- 
ties, and I resolved to gird on the ' ' shield and buckler ' ' of 
righteousness, and to make an heroic effort to retrieve my 
broken fortunes. To that end, it always having been an 
article of my religion that one should use all his God-given 
faculties before falling down and crying for help, I simply 
breathed a prayer for strength where I might be weak and 
stumbled, then descended to the breakfast room serene and 
confident. 

It may be a matter of surprise that so great a corporation 
should seemingly visit such harshness upon the defenseless 
head of an old servant of so many years' standing. The policy 
involved dawned upon me later. The railroad pays the pre- 
miums on the bonds of its employes, aggregating a very large 
sum, and naturally exacts indemnity in accordance with the 
contract. The innocence or wrongdoing of the employe does 
not affect the principle involved one way or another. Mine 
was the first test case that had come up and, not to vitiate 
their claim, our Company had to proceed strictly in legal form; 
hence the demand first upon me. My position between two 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF. 1865. 



47 



powerful corporations, like two millstones, became very tick- 
lish, and a misstep might grind me to powder. About that 
time there was also an attitude of aloofness on the part of the 
officers of the Company that pained me a good deal. I was 
left entirely to my own devices, and thrown upon my own 
resources to work out my own salvation in my own way. The 
reason for this I also fathomed to be the avoidance of any com- 
promising appearance of giving me suggestions or advice. 




"lish" under his own "vine and fig tree. 



Pushed to close quarters, the Surety Company began strenu- 
ous efforts to induce me to join them as principal in contesting 
the claim, harassing me a good deal, and succeeded for a time 
in placing me in an entirely false light with my Company. In 
the end they paid the claim, then turned upon me for such 
satisfaction as they might obtain. I labored hard and long 
to effect with them some kind of a stay or compromise that 
would spare my home, or at least ward off the burden of an 



48 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

overhanging judgment that would require a lifetime to liquid- 
ate. But it all ended in disappointment, for the only proposi- 
tion they would consider was coupled with conditions impos- 
sible for me to accept. Nothing I could say or do would move 
them from this stand. If that corporation has a soul I was 
not able to find it, although I searched for it diligently. After 
halting final proceedings for more than a year, suddenly, and 
with a good deal of feeling, they inaugurated the machinery 
that stripped me of all my belongings (my salary they could not 
touch), and there was lodged against me at the Capitol at 
Trenton a judgment for over twenty thousand dollars. It 
was truly hard for me to stand by helpless and witness my 
home, to which I was greatly attached, vanish under the 
juggernaut processes of the law. My position of livelihood 
remained, however, and in it I seemed to be, if possible, more 
firmly intrenched than ever. 

Chapter XV. 

"all is well that ends well." 

My story is already too long,. and intermediate events must 
be skipped to a period some three years later, when was veri- 
fied the proverb, "All things come to him who waits," and 
again suggests a likeness to Job, for "the Lord turned the 
captivity, and blessed the latter end more than the beginning." 
That overhanging "judgment" the Surety Company found it 
convenient to remove, and all things were restored. The 
officer of our Company that on the start had seemed the most 
unrelenting became one of my warmest friends. One day, as 
we were crossing the river on a ferryboat, he took my hand, 
and after complimenting me upon the results, said: "Through 
all your trying ordeal you never made a single mistake. 
And truly, after all, I do not regret it. And who ever does 
regret a battle that has tested his metal, and through which he 
has passed with credit and honor ? And least of all do I regret 
that fiery trial that morning alone in what now dwells in my 
memory as a little sanctuary, my bedroom. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 49 

But now the tension of that long ordeal was relaxed, and 
while my mind had remained most active, clear and sure 
throughout that anxious and nerve-racking period, my vital 
force had been squandered at a terrible rate. Poor over- 
wrought nature suddenly succumbed to that awful, awful 
complaint, "nervous prostration," wherein I suffered horrors 
that cannot be described. What would the reader say to 
being tortured every waking moment by infernal suggestions 
to destroy himself? Not that I wanted to die, for life was 
still sweet as ever, and I was determined to fill out my allotted 
days. Fortunately, I soon came to understand that these 
horrible suggestions were only symptoms of that disease, and 
I endeavored to school myself to patiently and hopefully 
endure. My railroad people were most kind and granted me 
absences as frequently and as long as I desired. Hence, with 
my wife we traveled by easy stages all over our land, from 
the Atlantic to the Pacific; from the Lakes to the Gulf and 
over the Gulf to Cuba; from Maine to California, and to the 
remotest Southwest limit of our land; and to Canada, to 
Mexico. And here is where I perceive the "blessing in dis- 
guise, ' ' for nothing but the absolute necessity for rest could 
have dissipated my mistaken conviction that my business 
could not survive without my constant supervision. Hence, I 
should probably have remained a slave to my desk, and there- 
by missed all the broadening effects, and delightful memories, 
and experiences of our travels. I do not any more neglect to 
accept willingly my annual vacations, as I formerly did; and 
now I find a new delight in a new resort each year somewhere 
in the grand old mountains. 

My sixty-third birthday was passed last January, and in 
looking back upon the years, I cannot but give expression to 
what has always been an inner consciousness — that I have been 
led, ' ' a child of fate, " by a hand I could not see, but feel, in 
paths best for me to walk, and in a sphere best for me to 
labor. My life has been truly happy, notwithstanding all, 
for I have another life outside of business — in books, in fields 
and woods, by "the still waters" — and I can rejoice in all that 
is beautiful and lovely in the world, and wherever placed 



50 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

have been happy and found full measure of enjoyment, but 
always and everywhere in the companionship of my family. 
And in the end, when for me all things are finished, I hope it 
may be my privilege to say, slightly paraphrased, what I said 
at the beginning, ' ' All is well, for all doth end well. ' ' 

' 'Though swiftly time, with rapid wings, 

Hath borne us from old scenes we knew, 
Yet memory oft the picture brings 

In glowing colors back to view. 
Thus early friends remember when 

They first as schoolmates met to play, 
And now though years have passed since then, 

It only seems the other day. ' ' 



Truly yours, 

Elisha Butler. 



Penna. R. R., Jersey City, N. J., 
March 31st, 1906. 



MORE ABOUT TOM RAFTERY. 

At the suggestion of our class Historian, I hand in a separate 
article on Tom Raftery. 

Thomas Raftery — ' ' Tom, " as he was always known to his 
friends — was born on the isle of Achill, Ireland. All his life he 
was a firm believer in an overruling Providence in the affairs 
of men, and whatever happened to him he believed was for 
the best. 

He used to relate an incident of the famine in Ireland, while 
he was a mere lad. The family — father, mother, brothers and 
sisters — were on the point of starvation, bemoaning and some 
crying. Little Tom's heart was almost paralyzed at the 
scene, but his faith turned heavenward for help. Rushing 
forth in the starry night alone he came to a field; then, falling 
upon his knees, with uplifted hands he prayed to his God ; after 
which, still on his knees, he fell to work with desperation to 
feel all around in the darkness, and to dig up the soft ground 
with his hands, when, lo! he grasped a large potato. Then, 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 51 

working along the row, another, and farther on others, until 
he had found enough to fill his pockets. Then, doubling up his 
bib, he filled that also; after which, in wild excitement, he hur- 
ried homeward with his burden as fast as his legs could carry 
him. As he pushed open the door his foot caught on the step 
and he pitched headlong within, and the potatoes went flying 
in all directions over the floor, to the mingled amazement, 
consternation, and joy of the assembled family. 

Near Tom's home was a lofty cliff overlooking the sea.' It 
was a favorite haunt of his, and is described in one of his 
poems written years after in America. Looking out upon 
this sea, 

"Where the porpoise rolls, and the dolphins play, 
And the sunbeams dance at the close of day, ' ' 

his imagination had full play. He tells of his determination 
to become a sailor, and of one day coming to America, of 
which he had heard a great deal; but action in that direction 
was held in abeyance, just then, by his love for a modest little 
maiden, to whom he had written a letter making known his 
feelings, at the same time apprising her of his intention to go 
to sea in case she did not care for him. No reply came, and 
accepting her silence as a refusal he hesitated no longer, but 
engaged himself to a vessel that touched at many ports. 
After various cruises, through several years, at last he anchored 
in the harbor of New York. On the deck of the vessel he 
happened to pick up a stray tract that gave kindly advice to- 
sailors against the numerous wiles and pitfalls spread for their 
entanglement in the great city. Believing that the publishers 
of that tract must be good men, who would be willing to assist 
a friendless sailor boy to find shelter and employment, he 
sought them out at the address given on the tract. It can well 
be imagined how his open, honest, and intelligent countenance 
impressed these "good Samaritans." Not only a home but 
employment was found for him. Nor did they stop there. 
Schooling was provided, first in the city and thence at Andover, 
under that famed instructor. Dr. Taylor, where he accom- 
plished his preparation for entrance to Princeton College. In 



52 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

his class were our classmates, MacMartin and Richardson, our 
class Historian. 

In his class, also, but intending to enter Yale, were two 
friends whom he dearly loved, Todd Ford and Carlos Carter. 
To the latter he was especially attached. Both were wealthy 
in their own names. Once they together paid a visit to Tom 
after his installment in Princeton. He had no intimation 
of their intended visit, nor of their presence in the town, until, 
in answer to their knock, he opened his door and faced them. 
Then followed a scene in which Tom's trouser legs were ripped 
up to the seat, and he was denuded of most of his outward 
apparel. At this juncture a porter from the hotel appeared, 
bearing a case stocked with a full outfit to reclothe him from 
head to foot. Next followed a banquet, spread out in the 
room, with all the good things the best caterer in the town 
could provide. Such was the hearty, generous, boyish fun 
of these friends. Next morning they all appeared as guests 
at the breakfast table of our club. I had heard a great 
deal from Tom about these friends of his, especially Carter, 
and upon meeting him I felt wonderfully drawn towards him, 
and so I impulsively arose and crossed the floor to take his 
hand, the only one of the company to do so. 

Carter was obliged to abandon his course at Yale on account 
of ill health, and he went traveling through Europe and the 
East. It was during these travels that one morning Tom 
came over to my room, in great agitation, and told me that 
about four o'clock that morning something aroused him from 
slumber so suddenly that he found himself sitting up in bed, 
and there at the foot of the bed facing him stood Carter for an 
instant, his body naked to the waist. Some weeks later Tom 
received word from some member of Carter's family, with 
whom he had been corresponding, breaking the news that 
Carter had been drowned in the River Jordan. The caravan 
with which he had been traveling encamped on the banks of 
that river, and Carter went in to bathe. His body was never 
recovered. 

Upon graduating from Princeton Tom proceeded at once 
to Washington, having, through the intervention of influential 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 55 

friends, received an appointment to the Second Comptroller's 
office in the U. S. Treasury Department, where he remained 
continuously for about sixteen years. His foothold thus secured 
he lost no time in sending for his beloved Prudence, already 
his wife for more than a year, and whom he had not seen since 
their marriage in England during our Junior vacation. 

Tom's official duties seem to have been very light, largely 
nominal and perfunctory. Much time was left on his hands, 
and he took up the study of the law. In due course he was 
admitted to the bar of the District of Columbia, expecting at 
some time in the future to enter upon regular practice. He 
entered upon these studies with his usual enthusiasm , but with 
little appreciation of the exactions and requirements, and hence 
for all practical purposes, excepting the additional knowledge 
and mental discipline, it was mostly a waste of time; for poor 
Tom temperamentally, by inclination and tastes was hardly 
rightly adapted to become a successful lawyer. 

Everybody who has' ever known Tom can testify to his 
hearty, agreeable, approachable and social nature, and every- 
body everywhere liked him. The writer frequently visited 
him in Washington, and was often surprised at his wide 
acquaintance with people of distinction, both in and out of 
Congress, who would greet him by name, or step aside to 
grasp his hand^ indicative of something more than mere pass- 
ing acquaintance. His wide acquaintance with foreigners 
awoke in him a desire to acquire their languages. He first took 
up German, of which he already had considerable knowledge. 
Then followed French, Italian, Spanish, and to some extent 
others. There is no doubt that Tom had a marked aptitude 
for modern languages, and he acquired a mastery of them 
through that tremendous and unremitting application he was 
capable of, and from which nothing could divert him until his 
object was attained, provided his interest was once aroused 
and concentrated. He had conceived the idea, and was most 
enthusiastic in his belief, that the acquirement of a number 
of the most commonly used foreign languages in this country 
could not fail to be of great practical benefit to him in the 
practice of the law, and would naturally help to multiply his 



54 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

clientage. Meanwhile the law, that never seriously proposed 
to adopt him as one of its adherents and worshipers, was 
temporarily, through his absorbing pursuit of languages, 
thrust in the background. But after all it was perhaps just 
as well as a diversion, amusement, occupation, mental devel- 
oper and stimulant. Poor old Tom! Ever a dreamer, im- 
practical and wasteful of misdirected energies, and yet ever 
a wanton Child of Genius. 

An incident may be related here that occurred while Tom 
was still in Washington, illustrative of his incorrigible prodi- 
gality and extravagant generosity. An old recluse uncle lived 
alone in a home he owned in Newark, N. J. The house burned 
to the ground one night with the uncle in it. Eventually title 
to the lot became vested in Tom's name. It had an assessed 
valuation of about $2,000, and was located in a section of the 
town since greatly enhanced in value. About that time there 
appeared some old friend, now in hard luck, but who had 
seen "better days," and once upon a time had befriended 
Tom in some small way. Their circumstances being reversed, 
this old friend sought out Tom and appealed to him for aid. 
Of ' ' silver and gold ' ' Tom had little or none, but he owned the 
lot, and this he hastened to deed over to his whilom friend. 
Some years after, presuming upon my friendship for the family, 
I undertook to chide Tom's wife for not restraining such 
exuberant generosity on the part of her husband, but found 
that the seed fell upon stony ground, for she was in full sym- 
pathy with the act and, as she put it, "deeds of kindness 
should never be weighed in 'the balances.' ' ' 

During one of the Presidential campaigns, when the prob- 
abilities indicated an incoming Democratic Administration, 
Tom had an offer of the Principalship of Ulster Academy, 
Kingston, N. Y., which he deemed it prudent to accept and 
get out, before he might be kicked out. He remained there 
several years, then came to New York out of a job. From 
what I could gather Tom had been popular, as usual, all over 
the town, but he lacked government in the school. He was 
too kindly in nature and loved children too well ever to become 
a harsh disciplinarian. The Trustees, it seems, stood by him 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 55 

manfully for a long time, but finally had to yield to public 
sentiment, and so he found himself ' ' outside the breastworks." 
He accepted the situation as a Providential intervention to 
withdraw him from a provincial life to a broader sphere, if 
not for himself, at least for his family of six children rapidly 
developing into manhood and womanhood. While at Kingston 
he contributed several able articles to the Kingston Press, 
one on * * The Irish in America, ' ' another on ' ' The Germans in 
America, ' ' and others I do not recall. 

The short period of Tom's futile efforts to obtain new em- 
ployment, and up to the time of his installment as professor 
in the chair of German in the High School in Jersey City, may 
be omitted. It was through a business acquaintance with 
one of its citizens in Jersey City, himself an Irishman and 
Chairman of the Committee on Teachers, that I brought 
them together, with the result that Tom received the appoint- 
ment. The German element, especially of the partisan stripe, 
were greatly incensed at the idea of an Irishman purporting 
to teach German to their children, but they could not budge 
him so long as our Irish friend remained Chairman of the 
Board, which was some two years longer. A new administra- 
tion, however, promptly kicked him out at the end of the term. 
We called in classmate Flavel McGee, but our combined efforts 
were of no avail, and once more Tom was afloat on the sea of 
Time. Then came up again the question of the future. Tom 
soon settled that for himself. He would go West, his objec- 
tive the Pacific Coast, Tacoma or Seattle, where in a new 
country, among a new people, he felt that he could begin all 
over again, and write success upon a clean slate. He had 
been quenching his thirst for new adventure upon tomes of 
advertising literature, and quoted the lakes teeming with 
salmon and the hills bulging with rich ores. "But why 
travel so far to go fishing or to be a miner?" However, go 
he would, his route via the Isthmus. My last injunction and 
blessing, "You must come back to the U. S. Senate or to 
Congress. ' ' He landed at Tacoma, hung out his ' ' shingle, ' ' 
and established his meagre library. I anxiously watched the 
progress of events and saw signs of success. If only he would 



56 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. T^ 

stick, and feel * * now or never, ' ' and cast behind him that 
fatal defect of ever regarding the present as a makeshift, while 
looking beyond for something to happen affording greater 
opportunities. Then something developed that knocked all 
calculations "higher than a kite." 

In the early days of Tom's life in Washington a Congress- 
man from Southern California had induced him to purchase 
two city lots in San Diego, for which he paid $150 each. No 
railroad entered the town at that time, but one was projected, 
and its magnificent harbor threatened to outrival that of San 
Francisco. The railroad was built, spanning the Continent 
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and a boom in real estate was 
inaugurated, healthy enough at first, then a craze set in. Tom 
heard the news and hastened to the scene of action. Prices 
kept rolling up till Tom received a cash offer of $10,000 for 
his lots, another of $11,500 part cash, but he held them at 
$12,000. I was in receipt of frequent information and Coast 
newspapers chronicling the progress of the fever. Twenty 
years before I had witnessed a similar craze in the East, and 
was struck with its similarity in many respects to the progress 
of the San Diego disease, and particularly with the symptoms 
now indicating the crisis, or turning point. It seemed to me 
that the balloon was on the point of bursting, on account of 
signs I need not enumerate here. Therefore I begged Tom 
to sell, if not both, at least one of the lots. His replies indi- 
cated that he not only scented no danger, but anticipated still 
higher figures. On the ground himself, he deemed himself a 
much better judge of the situation. I wrote again, ' ' Sell, sell, 
sell, you turkey gobbler, or I'll come out there and wring 
your neck ! ' ' All of no avail. Almost before my last letter 
could have reached him the bauble burst, things fell flat, 
' 'there was nothing doing, ' ' and Tom came on East. 

When he told me at the station that he had procured a 
mortgage of $4,000 on the lots, pledged to pay $600 interest 
annually, I told him he never could stand that exorbitant 
interest, and probably would never realize another cent out of 
them. ' * Fortune has smiled upon you, old fellow, but I fear 
you have spurned her, and she will never give you such an- 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 57 

other chance. ' ' He offered to wager me that in less than six 
months he would get his cash price, $12,000, and seemed 
provoked at m}^ blindness and obstinacy. But this was not 
all of it. A friend in Washington had purchased two lots 
upon Tom's recommendation before the boom had got under 
full headway. This friend was now on his death-bed and in 
need of money. Tom took the lots off his hands at the highest 
price ruling at the height of the boom. Was there ever such 
another provoking, incorrigible fellow in the world? He 
could not carry the burden of interest, and of course he never 
received another cent and the whole thing was a dead loss. 
At the same time a mild and sensible boom had started in 
Seattle in which fortunes were made. Tom's $10,000 cash 
offer accepted and judiciously invested there would have 
insured his comfort for the remainder of his days. 

After this wreck, ruin, and lost opportunity, Tom never 
seemed to be the same man again. The wonted enthusiasm, 
bouyancy, and hopefulness of his nature seemed to have 
received a vital stab. Then again he had reached his sixtieth 
year, when the vital powers begin to flag. Aside from an 
engagement by the Republican Campaign Committee, which 
took him touring through several States as a campaign speaker, 
he had little income, and contributed little to the support of 
his family, already more than self-supporting. It is true that 
he developed his scheme for harbor defense, from ideas 
received while on the Pacific Coast, also his patent fender for 
protection of vessels at sea, alluded to elsewhere, but nothing 
came of either of these really valuable appliances. I took 
Tom's oldest son, Carlos Carter, in my office as a clerk, and 
later his son Tom. Three of his daughters, very smart girls, 
were doing well in the largest department store in New York. 
"Charlie," as we called him, had graduated from Andover, 
but could go no farther for want of means. He was a truly 
noble boy, heroic and self-sacrificing, really a victim to his 
devotion to the family, for he died about a year later than 
Tom. In addition to his duties in my office and his rapid 
promotion, in itself sufficiently onerous, he would insist in 
spite of remonstrance upon giving instruction to private 



58 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

pupils outside of our business hours. He also mingled some- 
what in New York politics. The son Tom developed into a 
lazy, worthless fellow and, much as I desired to be of service to 
the family, I was compelled to dispense with his services. 

It was during these latter days that I saw much of Tom — in 
ray oflfice, in my city home, and at the seaside, where his ever- 
welcome presence cast the sunshine of his radiant intellect 
and his happy, refined, and genial nature. These were truly 
seasons of delightful friendship and communings, wherein 
were renewed from day to day our old college days, of which 
we talked a great deal, and of the classmates scattered to the 
four corners of the world, some of whom it had never been pur 
privilege to meet since the day of parting under the old elms 
where we had spent so many happy days. At last the end 
drew near, for Bright's disease had been stealthily advancing, 
its incipient stages escaping the notice of us all; but up to the 
last he maintained an abounding cheerfulness, and an ever- 
present trust in that Providence that had comforted him in 
all his years and wanderings. And so his fitful life, that never 
had wronged anyone on earth, passed to its eternal rest, and 
the memory of him dwells with me ever brighter, like the 
blessing made brighter by its flight. Poor Tom! No nobler 
heart ever existed. Alas! I miss him; I grieve for him. 
Again I say. Poor Tom! 

Elisha Butler. 



MATTHEW H. CALKINS 

was born March 15th, 1842, in the town of Ballston, Sara- 
toga County, N. Y. Prepared for college, partly, at the 
Ballston Spa Institute, and more fully at the Charlton Acad- 
emy, Charlton, N. Y., then under the care of Rev. James N. 
Crocker, D.D. Entered Princeton College, as a Freshman, in 
September, 1861, and took the full classical course of four 
years, and was graduated in June, 1865. Entered the Prince- 
ton Theological Seminary the following September, and was 
graduated from that institution in May, 1868. According to 



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59 



custom, I was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of Albany 
in the month of June, 1867. Before graduation in 1868 I had 
received and accepted a call to the Solebury Presbyterian 
Church, in Bucks County, Pa. Was ordained and installed 
pastor of that church in the month of August of that year. 




MATTHEW H. CALKINS. 



Remained in this charge until April, 1873. Through the kind 
offices of classmate Rev. C. H. McClellan, I was invited to 
preach as a candidate in the Central Presbyterian Church of 
New Castle, Pa., in the early months of 1873 ; was in due time 
called to that field, and settled as pastor in June of that year. 



60 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

This pastorate continued until June, 1899. The best strength 
I had and the best years of my Hfe were given to the Master's 
work in this field. 

into the details of that twenty-six years of service — the 
defeats and the triumphs, the sunshine and the shadows, the 
heartaches and the gladness, the public and private minis- 
trations, the victories of sin and grace — it is not necessary to 
enter here. Only they who have lived such a life have an 
interest in it or can understand it. 

I am now, at this writing, in my third and, as far as human 
foresight goes, in my last pastorate. Was installed pastor in 
this charge in October, 1900. It is an Eden rest compared 
with my former pastorate, having now comforts then unknown. 
I came here very much against my own wish, even fought 
against it for a time, but have since discovered that a wise and 
loving Providence was overruling it all for my own and others' 
good. Indeed I have been continually led in ways not of 
my own choosing, thanks be to His Name! 

Of the honors, titles, compensations of various kinds that 
come to the average minister I have had a fair and undeserved 
portion. They are the more appreciated because they have 
come unsought. 

In looking back over thirty-eight years of ministry, I can now 
plainly see that if there is one function of my ministry that, 
quite unrecognized by myself at first, has become more 
prominent than any other, it is the office of a peacemaker. 
Officially and otherwise I have had not a little to do with 
frictions and troubles among the churches. It is a work that 
is very delightful if you succeed, but — but — you don't always 
succeed. Some interesting things might be told along this 
line, which were better not printed — at least not yet awhile. 
Suffice it to say, for the present, that there is yet need for the 
distinction between the church militant (in more ways than 
one) and the church triumphant. 

Last, but not least, in the home and domestic life, a matter 
very vital to a minister's welfare, I have had the full measure 
of blessing. Yet has our pathway led quite enough beneath 
the ' ' darkened skies and trailing clouds. ' ' I was married in 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 61 

June, 1868, to Miss Anna M. Cavert, of Charlton, N. Y. Our 
only child was born in July, 1869, and died in July, 1870. 
This has been a never-forgotten sorrow. But at the time of 
the child's birth the mother was injured by the incompetency 
of the physician, from which she never recovered. For 
twenty-six years thereafter there was seldom a day that she 
was free from pain. She entered into rest in May, 1896. Of 
the sufferings and privations of those years the world knows 
nothing — and needs to know nothing, for it has no counter- 
vailing comforts nor alleviations to offer. God knows. 

I was married again to Miss Mary E. Barnett, of New 
Castle, Pa., in December, 1897. In a little more than two 
years thereafter we moved to this field of labor. We are 
blessed in this work here, have a pleasant home with modern 
conveniences, where all the Old Boys of '65 will find a hearty 
welcome. 

The thoughts of the visit to Princeton last June and the 
meeting twenty of the classmates are a perpetual delight. I 
did not know that I had so profound an affection for the dear 
BOYS of '65. Hope to see you all in the ' ' Glory Land. ' ' 

MiFFLiNBURG, Penna., Marcli ist, 1906. 

Calkins roomed 13 East. Was a Whig and "Lit." editor. 
— C. F. R. 

SAMUEL CAMPBELL. 

Born in New York City, May 2 2d, 1842. Fitted at D wight's 
Rural High School, Clinton, N. Y., in i860 and 1861. Roomed 
at Miss Comfort's, Mr. Robinson's, Mr. Lane's, 31 East, 24 
East, Mrs. Hageman's, and Mr. Andrew's. Whig. After 
graduating taught school and studied law at Rockaway, N. Y. 
In 1869 was admitted to the bar, New York County. Was 
married the same year, and left a widower with two children in 
1875. Present address, 140-142 Nassau Street, New York 
City. His brother Howard, '68, has his office at same address. 
When your Historian called in August, 1906, he was in court; 
but Howard was very cordial and gave a hearty welcome, 
remembering many of '65 with much pleasure. 



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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

CARPENTER. 



Came to us from New York. Was with us only a short 
time at the beginning of Fresh year, when he entered the 
Army, and all trace of him seems lost. — C. F. R. 




JOHN CARRINGTON. 



JOHN CARRINGTON. 

[I am going to let ' ' Carrie ' ' speak for himself, except to 
say he was a Clio, roomed 20 North, 25 East and 28 North. 
He won a Hall medal, and was with us at our reunion in 1900. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 65 

Compare his present picture with that in the Fresh group. — 
C. F. R.] 

Bangkok, Siam, November i, 1905. 
Mr. C. F. Richardson, 8 Walnut St., Phila., Pa. 

Class Secretary, Class '6^, Princeton College {University), 
Princeton, New Jersey. 

Dear Classmates — yes. 

Dear Classmates — for this is to you all. 

Your communication, with the photograph, telling me of 
your very happy meeting in Princeton this year, was indeed 
welcome, and gave me much joy. I enjoyed every word of the 
letter and many long looks at each of the sixteen faces in the 
picture. Some of them I have not seen personally since our 
graduation; some not since our good-by at the close of our 
Theological Seminary c6urse; but some I have seen several 
times since. I am sure Riggs will enjoy very much, too, this 
letter and picture, as I understand a copy of each has been 
sent to him. I suppose we two are now the most distant from 
Princeton of our class. Mrs. Carrington and I visited Mr. 
and Mrs. McChesney in their home in Canton, China, as we 
were at one time on our way to North China for my wife's 
health. They were indeed a happy couple. Oh! but Mc- 
Chesney was a good man. His being so suddenly taken away 
was mysterious and sad. I am glad you all had such a good 
time at your meeting; and of course, as you say, "Abert did 
himself justice, as well as justice to the class, ' ' in showing the 
worth of '65. Then your gathering at Prof. Cameron's too — 
well, I should have enjoyed it all. It would be very difficult 
for me to predict as to when I may be in Old Princeton again. 
I confess when there, a little more than five years ago, I felt 
sad to see that old East College had been taken down. It is 
true it was not a handsome building, but the old associations, 
as I roomed in it a year and more, are many of them not to be 
so easily taken from the memory. 

But you asked me for an account of myself, from birth to 



64 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

date. Four years of that time spent at Old Nassau are well 
enough known to you all. I was born on one of the old farms 
just back of Princeton and in Princeton Township — we may say, 
in sight of the college. This they tell me — I do not remember 
myself — was August 13th, 1840. I lived part of the time on a 
farm and part of the time in the town of Princeton — as my 
father owned property both in and out of town — until our 
family, except myself and oldest brother, moved to California. 
At this time I roomed and boarded in the town, and entered 
what was called ' 'Johnny Schenck's school, ' ' which was held 
in the basement of the Methodist Church. Here I studied 
about two years, and then passed my examinations for en- 
trance to the Freshman class of Princeton, where I met 
our Freshman class for the first time — except W. Y, Johnson, 
Reading, Dewing, Young and F. Schenck, who were my class- 
mates in Mr. Schenck's school, and J. Schenck, who studied 
in another school in the town. From this date on we studied 
together, with those who joined our class farther on, until 
Commencement Day, or rather a few weeks before. Any 
recital of incidents, etc., during these four years here would 
make this letter too long, and besides they are all known to 
you all. I entered the Theological Seminary in Princeton in 
the autumn after our graduation from the college, and com- 
pleted the three years' course in April, 1868, in which month 
I was ordained to the Gospel ministry by the Presbytery of 
New Brunswick, having been previously appointed by the 
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions to labor in Siam. On 
the 6th of May, 1868, Miss Sadie E. Bartine, of Trenton, 
N. J., and I were married in the Fourth Presbyterian Church 
of that city. We sailed for Siam on the ist of June, 1868, via 
Aspinwall, Panama, and San Francisco, California. We 
remained in California several months to visit with my mother, 
brothers and sisters and other relatives, and then sailed via 
Japan for Hong Kong. I was surprised to meet J. W. 
Van Dyke, class of '64, on the same steamer in which we sailed, 
on his way, too, with his wife, to Siam. When we reached 
Yokohama, I was again surprised to meet J. B. Done, M.D., of 
the class of '64. Done and I did not speak at first, but out of 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 65 

surprise we looked at each other and laughed. We reached 
Hong Kong a few weeks before Christmas, and as there were 
no steamers running from Hong Kong to Bangkok, we waited 
for a sailing vessel. In due time the vessel was ready and the 
Van Dykes, another couple and ourselves reached Bangkok 
during the latter half of January, 1869, glad enough to arrive 
at our destination. Now real life began with us. Our first 
duty was to "tussle" with a strange, difficult Oriental language, 
and I am glad to record here that Mrs. Carrington was my 
very worthy equal, if not superior, in acquiring a use of this 
new tongue, for she learned to speak it fluently and accurately. 
In about eight months after our arrival I was placed by 
the mission at the head of our largest school, as superin- 
tendent, and in one year and four months I took charge of my 
first regular church service, preaching in the Siamese lan- 
guage, though I had labored among the people, through the 
medium of their language, much earlier than that. Mrs. 
Carrington, too, had- her own school, which was a success in 
every way. On our return from the trip to North China, 
mentioned above, we were sent by the mission to establish a 
new mission station at Ayuthia, the old capital of Siam; and 
we labored there until our return to the United States, on 
account of Mrs. Carrington's ill health. In U. S. A., I labored 
in Pennsylvania, and then in three different fields in California, 
until I was called to a pastorate in San Francisco, where we 
labored seven years. In many respects I regard my pastorate 
in San Francisco as my most important work in the U. S. A., 
as there under my labors a nice new church was erected, and 
besides the ' 'mission' ' I started, in connection with my regu- 
lar work, has grown into a church with a good church building 
of their own. This pastorate I resigned, at the request of the 
American Bible Society, to return to Siam, to start and carry 
on their agency and mission in this country. We arrived 
again in Siam, January, 1890, and at once entered upon the 
Bible Society's work. My labors in short are the translation 
of some of the Scriptures from the Hebrew into Siamese, and 
to aid in the revision of those books already translated as 
irapidly as they require to be reprinted, and also much preach- 
. .. 5 



66 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

ing in the Siamese language, some in English, and a great deal 
of evangelistic work among the people in this great city of 
500,000, and also in touring into the ' 'regions beyond. ' ' As 
I look back on college and seminary days and studies, I find 
of most direct value to me in my labors those studies that 
pertain to public discourse and speaking and the Greek and 
Hebrew languages. Little did I think, when we studied and 
recited together, that such labors would fall to me. I am 
still a firm believer in the staid old classical course as the all- 
round substantial one. Well, I am now writing at the table 
where my work of translating the book of Isaiah from the 
Hebrew into Siamese is before me, and where in front of me is 
the second book of Corinthians being revised by me for the 
press, and the Gospel of John also in the press, and on the 5th 
I am to read and correct the proof-sheets of the book of 
Jonah. This, with an almost daily outing among the people 
in evangelistic work, seems a good deal; but strict method, 
with hard work, sees me through. In all this a man needs 
much of the grace of God, and a physical constitution which 
owes much to the ball ground and gymnasium of Princeton, 
or some other institution. Here I am. My wife is in Cali- 
fornia, getting needed health and strength. McChesney, 
McClellan, Dewing, Leggett, and Riggs knew her as a young 
woman, but I have known her all through life as the sharer of 
our joys and sorrows, for we have had our share of the latter. 
Six sons, no daughters, were born to us; but only two 
remain. God in His goodness and wisdom took to Himself the 
four. The older one is in business in California, the other in 
Bangkok, a dental surgeon and optician. But my story grows 
too long. I am in fairly good health, but since my severe 
illness in San Francisco, when on furlough six years ago, I 
have lost my average weight, which was 165 pounds, and now 
it is only 132. 

I am also sending you under another cover a photograph 
of myself, to be used as you see best. It is said to be a good 
one. I am very sure, if Mrs. Carrington were here, she would 
join me in sending greetings and best wishes. My aunt in 
Sacramento has just sent me a nice cushion with the tiger's 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 6/ 

head, the college yell of Princeton, and also the word "Prince- 
ton " on it. I would like right well to hear the yell again. 
"W^ith best wishes and a sincere God bless you, . 

I am affectionately your classmate, 

John Carrington. 



THOMAS JOHN CHEW. 

Born in St. Mary's County, Maryland, February 25th, 1846^ 
Entered August, 1864. Roomed 6 North and 24 East. 
Whig. Further than the fact that he bcame a successful 
physician in the vicinity of Washington, D. C, and that he 
died a few years ago, I am unable to learn any particulars of 
his lif6.— C. F. R. 



JOSEPH S. COLTON. 

Born in Chester County, Pa., in 1843. Fitted at Wilmington, 
Del., and Princeton. Entered college August, i860, but 
graduated with us. Clio. Roomed at home in Princeton. 
Studied theology at Protestant Episcopal Divinity School in 
West Philadelphia. Was ordained deacon in Philadelphia, 
April, 1867, graduating in 1868. In October, 1868, was or- 
dained priest at Harrisburg, Pa., and had his first charge 
there. In February, 1873, he moved to Nebraska, and was 
married in the fall of the same year to Miss Sophie Neely, of 
New York City. 

In March, 1887, he moved to Biddeford, Me., where he took 
charge of a large parish. His health failed shortly after, and 
he was brought to Princeton, in April, 1902, for interment. — 
C. F. R. 

JAMES B. CONVERSE. 

Born in Philadelphia in 1844. Fitted partly at Philadel- 
phia High School. Roomed 19 East, 15 West, and 36 North. 
Clio. Won essay medal in Nassau Literary. 1865-66, clerk- 
ing in office of Christian Observer; 1869-71, in Union Theo- 



68 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

logical Seminary, H amp den-Sidney, Va.; stated supply and 
pastor of Makemie Church, in Accomac County, Va. ; 1872-79, 
editing the Christian Observer, Louisville, Ky. June 30th, 
1874, married Miss Queen Campbell at Paducah, Ky., who 
died October 17th, 1875, leaving an infant girl of seven days. 
1877, a trip to Europe. Wrote and published "A Summer 
Vacation Abroad." 1879-81, evangelist of Holston and 
Knoxville Presbyteries in East Tennessee. 1881-87, P^tor 
of Blountville Presbyterian Church, Sullivan County, Tenn., 
and of adjacent churches. February 14th, 1882, married 
Miss Eva Almeda Dulaney, of Blountville, Tenn., by whom 
he has three living boys. 

In 1886 became interested in systematic study of Social 
Science and wrote "The Bible and Land." 1887-83, agent 
and evangelist of Holston Presbytery. Rewrote and pub- 
lished ' ' The Bible and Land. ' ' Later became evangelist of 
Knoxville Presbytery, and in 1890 began The Christian 
Patriot. 

Since then he has been engaged in evangelistic work and 
promulgating his views on what may be entitled Christian 
Socialism, some points of which all of us can heartily endorse. 
Present address, Morristown, Tenn. 

In his report he sends the following which is unabridged. I 
do not agree in his statement that he is " eternally on the 
other side. ' ' Let me add that he can tell facts of great inter- 
est of life among the mountain whites, for he has been with 
them and his work has been greatly blessed. Few have done 
more good to their fellow-men than ' ' Booz, ' ' if we do not 
endorse all his ideas. — C. F. R. 

ETERNALLY ON THE OTHER SIDE. 

Dear Brother Richardson: 

In answer to your request for a contribution to the class 
history I give a reminiscence. 

In our Senior year (I think) Prof. Fowler gave a free lecture 
on phrenology. Near its conclusion he wished to examine 
some heads, and loud calls were made for "Booz" and "Paide," 
to which neither answered. The next day there arose a dispute 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 69 

between "Sloss" and "Booz" at the east campus gate, 
Sloss affirming and Booz doubting that Prof. Fowler derived 
his knowledge of character from the face and not from the 
skull. To settle it Booz agreed to be examined with his face 
covered. ' ' Ninety-eight ' ' made the arrangements. Prof. 
Fowler declared that Booz was eternally or everlastingly on 
the other side. The remark amused Ninety-eight and the 
others who heard it and all the collegians to whom it was 
repeated. It did not settle the doubt, for the circumstances 
and not the skull might have suggested it to Prof. Fowler. 

And I have been everlastingly on the other side. No 
doubt it made me quite disagreeable to my classmates. 
Since it has made me intellectually lonely. It has deprived 
me of ecclesiastical honors and emoluments; has robbed 
me of the credit due me for the good I have done. 

Yet the Lord has made this habit of questioning every- 
thing and trying to go to the bottom of every matter a bless- 
ing to the world. For He will bless every talent however 
humble that is sincerely consecrated to Him. 

In December, 1886, snow fell in East Tennessee to the 
depth of forty-four inches. From my younger brother I had 
received Henry George's "Progress and Poverty." Political 
economy under Mcllvaine was very dry to me, but this inter- 
ested me. I became the only Single Taxer in East Tennessee. 
But I differed equally from George and those who assailed 
him. On one point my views have prevailed. Few now assert 
with George that this private ownership of land is essentially 
unrighteous. I published ' 'The Bible and Land ' ' in the 
fall of 1888. I have some unsold copies, and will be glad to 
send a copy to any one who will pay the postage (8 cents). 

From that time I have been largely isolated. Since 1900 
I have been circulating the petition below: 

"a petition to the churches 
Which A II Christian People and Patriotic Citizens Will 

Gladly Sign. 
"We distinctly acknowledge our responsibility to God in 
civil matters and the supremacy of his son, Jesus Christ, as 



70 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

King of kings and Lord of lords. No law should be passed in- 
consistent with the will of God as revealed in the Holy Scrip- 
tures. All should be governed by the mind and book of 
Christ in performing their duties as citizens, voters or magis- 
trates. 

' * (The undersigned wish to have the above principles 
added to the creeds of all Churches and taught in their Cate- 
chisms, Sabbath schools, pulpits and papers. 

' ' Please add to each signature the post office address of the 
signer and return the petition to Rev. James B. Converse, 
Morristown, Tenn.). ' ' 

The Doctors of Divinity and the agnostics refuse to add 
their names to the four thousand who have signed it. But I 
am right and they are all wrong; and my views of this purpose 
of the Bible will prevail and will abolish all poverty from the 
earth. Notwithstanding my loneliness and lack of appre- 
ciation the Lord has been very good to me. 

James B. Converse. 

[From The Morristown Gazette^ 
UNCLE SAM'S BIBLE. 

The writer has recently read a book entitled as above. It is the pro- 
duction of the pen and brain of Rev. James B. Converse, and is pub- 
lished by the Schulte Publishing Co., of Chicago, 111. (Cloth i2mo., 
$1.00.) "This book teaches doctrines and announces principles that 
have not been taught or announced in recent times — doctrines and 
principles claimed by the author, as we understand him, to be funda- 
mental Bible doctrines and principles, which, at most, have only been 
received theoretically by the Church in modem times, and have scarcely 
entered into practical Christian or national life at all. 

The argument of the volume may be tersely stated as follows: The 
Bible, which is the Word of God, gives, by inspiration, rules and prin- 
ciples for the government of the nations of the earth, which in them- 
selves are correct and are applicable in the determination of all great 
questions affecting the welfare of the people and of the nations. This 
is not Mr. Converse's language, but it is very clearly the underlying 
thought upon which he rests the argument. It is this thought (the 
major premise in the argument) which, we say, has only been received 
theoretically by pulpit and pew in recent times. And yet we suppose 
that in view of the fact, the very strong fact, that fully two-thirds of 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 71 

the chapters and verses in the entire Bible have direct reference to the 
government and the welfare of the people as nations, and that it does 
in fact undertake to give rules and principles for the government of 
peoples and nations, as fully and clearly as for individuals—we say, in 
view of these facts, we suppose few persons professing to believe the 
Bible to be an inspired volume would be found who would take direct 
tissue with Mr. Converse upon this proposition. Not many such would 
even call him a crank, basing their conclusion upon this position 
assumed by him. 

In the progress of his argument Mr. C. lays down twenty-eight pro- 
positions which he terms principles, and follows each with a discussion. 
The first ten of these may be summed up in what this writer has given 
above as the major premise of the argument. If stated in detail, per- 
haps, no one who accepts the Bible as inspired would controvert any 
one of these ten. But Mr. C.'s other eighteen propositions announce 
various political principles applicable to these times and to present 
conditions. Among these are the following: 

(15) Every government should provide honest money for its own 
people. 

(12) Government should collect no more taxes from the people than 
are needed for its modest support. 

(13) Unjust taxes are an abomination to the Lord. 

(20) Every man has a right to work. 

(22) Government should not diminish the wages of labor. 

These propositions, and some others of the eighteen, will be accepted 
by most men as sound, and by most Bible students as good Bible doc- 
trine. The author would not be strongly criticised by any on account 
of these principles. But he states others which, by his quotations 
from the Bible and his reasoning, he makes it exceedingly troublesome 
to deny or successfully controvert, which inevitably bring out from his 
critics the very common and threadbare answer to unpleasant state- 
ment of fact or arguments, to wit: "Crank." Among these are the 
following: 

(21) None should live without work. 

(17) Interest or usury is stealing. The government should dis- 
courage it. 

(16) The demonetization of silver was a great sin against God. 

(14) Import duties are forbidden, and free trade between nations is 
commanded by God. 

(27) Trusts are violation of the command, "Thou shalt not steal." 

(28) The licensing of the liquor traffic by the government is for- 
bidden by every sound principle of sociology. 

In these six, and others, the author tramps on somebody's toes. He 
seems to draw the proof of each proposition from the Bible. The 
minor premise in the argument is sometimes the proposition itself. 
It is sometimes found in the reasons and quotations given in its support. 



72 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

Usually the argument in each case may be easily reduced to syllogistic 
form. And in most instances the only ready answer to Mr. Converse's 
logic is not to be found in sound reasoning or in the Bible, but in one 
word which is often quite satisfactory to him who uses it — the single 
word "Crank." J.C.Hodges. 

MORRISTOWN, TeNN. 



EDWARD GRANT COOK. 

Born at Trenton, N. J., May 13th, 1845. Fitted at Law- 
renceville High School, and entered Princeton in August, 
1862. Clio. Roomed 21 East. After graduation he studied 
law at Trenton and Cambridge, Mass., Law School. Admitted 
to the bar June, 1868, as attorney, and in June, 1872, as coun- 
selor. Soon after he was appointed one of the Masters in the 
Court of Chancery in New Jersey. In 1868 he traveled ex- 
tensively through the West, and in 1878 and 1879 traveled in 
Europe and the East. In the summer of 1888 he visited 
Norway, Sweden and Russia. Soon after graduation he 
united with the First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, and in 
1875 was elected one of its Trustees. 

He died in April, 1897, and by his will Mercer Hospital, of 
which he was one of the organizers, was greatly benefited — 
$10,000 in money was left to endow two free beds, in honor 
of his father and mother, William Grant Cook and Elizabeth 
Grant Cook. 

A thousand dollars was left to the Deacons' Fund of the 
First Presbyterian Church of Trenton, and a bequest of a 
like amount to the pastor at the time of his death. Rev. Dr. 
John Dixon. 

The income from the remainder of his property was left 
for a life interest to his three brothers, and at the death of the 
last survivor the entire property is to go to the Mercer Hos- 
pital.— C. F. R. 

JOSEPH CROSS. 

Born at Morristown, N. J., 1844. Fitted at Elizabeth, N. 
J., 1859-62. Entered August, 1862. Roomed 29 East. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 73 

Clio. Junior Orator. Read law in Elizabeth, N. J., and 
Columbia College Law School. Present address, Elizabeth, 
N. J. He says: 

I am conscious of dereliction in duty, in that I have not 
earlier forwarded to our industrious and persistent class Sec- 
tary a summary of my uneventful career. I am not much 
given to autobigraphy, and I confess it is rather distasteful to 
me, and I presume it is to my classmates; nevertheless as this 
is strictly a family affair, I am constrained to unbosom myself, 
but to no greater length than can be avoided. 

You probably all know that I studied law with the present 
Chancellor of New Jersey, and was admitted to the bar of that 
State as an attorney- at-law in 1868, and as a counselor in 
187 1. Upon my admission to the bar, I was taken into part- 
nership with my preceptor, which arrangement continued for 
nearly twelve years, and until the time of his appointment as a 
Justice of the Supreme Court, in 1880. I prepared for college 
in Elizabeth, and have ever since resided here. I was mar- 
ried in 1870, but have no children; my wife is still living. I 
have been a member of the Westminster Presbyterian Church 
since about the time of its organization, in 1866; was one of 
its deacons for a period of four or five years, and subsequently 
an elder for about twenty years; this latter office, shortly after 
the adoption of the rotary system of election, I declined to 
accept, although re-elected. I was superintendent of the 
Sunday school of the above church for about ten years, and 
was subsequently retired at my own instance. 

In 1888 I was appointed Judge of the District Court of 
Elizabeth, a court of limited jurisdiction, but in some matters 
co-extensive with the county. This office I held only a few 
years when, in common with all other Judges of the same 
class, I was kindly legislated out of office by my political op- 
ponents. I never took any active part in politics, although 
always a Republican, until I was nearly fifty years of age, and 
then only because of the anti-race-track movement, which at 
that time was very general and vigorous. It subsequently 
swept the State, and resulted logically in what is locally known 
as the anti-race-track and gambling legislation, and at a later 



74 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

period in the adoption of Constitutional amendments of the 
same purport. As I had been somewhat active in opposition 
to the race-tracks, when the time came for the election of 
members of the Legislature upon that issue I was induced, 
contrary to my inclination, to become a candidate for member 
of the Assembly in a strongly Democratic district. My Demo- 
cratic friends, however, saw me through and I was elected by 
a good majority. I was twice elected to this office, the term 
of which is one year only, and toward the close of my first year 
of service, upon the resignation of the Speaker, I was unani- 
mously elected to that position, the Democrats making no 
nomination against me. The following year I had the unani- 
mous support of my party for the Speakership, and was again 
chosen to that position. I was then out of the Legislature for 
two years. In 1898 I was elected to fill an unexpired term as 
a member of the Senate, and was twice re-elected Senator for 
a full term of three years, so that I served in all seven years 
as a Senator, and the last year as President of the Senate, an 
office which in our State renders its holder acting Governor 
in case of his death, resignation, incapacity or absence from 
the State. During my service in the Legislature, and par- 
ticularly in the Senate, I served at one time or another upon 
all of the important committees. I found the work very 
agreeable and pleasant, but its performance occupied con- 
siderable time each year, and interfered somewhat with the 
practice of my profession. 

In the spring of 1904, the position of Judge of the District 
Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey 
became vacant through the death of the prior incumbent;, 
the position was thereupon offered to me, but as there was but 
one Judge for the entire State, and the work incident to the 
office very onerous and exacting, I declined to accept the 
position, and another was appointed in my stead. A few 
months later, however, Congress passed a law providing for 
an additional Judge for the district, the effect of which was 
that there were two Judges to do the work formerly done by 
one. The office thus created was tendered to me, and I 
accepted at once, and entered upon the discharge of its 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 75 

duties. Since I have become better acquainted with the 
work of the court, my judgment in refusing it in the first 
instance, has been fully confirmed as there is more work than 
one man could possibly attend to, having any proper regard to 
his comfort and health'. My associate and myself are kept 
employed, but not so constantly but what we have oppor- 
tunity for a reasonable vacation in the summer season. I 
enjoy the work very much, and I know of no State position, 
or indeed any position to which I might reasonably aspire, for 
which I would exchange it, and my advice to any of you who 
may be offered such a position is to accept. The salary is not 
over-munificent, but the appointment is for life, and when a 
Judge has served ten years and arrives at the age of seventy, 
he may retire upon full salary for the rest of his life. 

I do not know of anything else to add, except that I have 
always been blessed with good health and reasonable pros- 
perity, and have had a happy life, for all of which I am pro- 
foundly grateful. 



ALFRED DAYTON. 

Born at Matawan, N. J., 1845. Fitted at home. Entered 
Princeton, August, 1862. Roomed 31 West and 39 North. 
Clio. After graduation began teaching at Mt. Vernon, West 
Chester County, N. Y., for a year, and studied law for three 
years, and have been plodding along in the profession ever 
since. Was elected to the Legislature of the State of New 
Jersey in 1886, and same year was appointed Judge of the 
District Court of Jersey City for the term of five years. But 
the event of my life did not occur until July 23d, 1896. On 
that day, or rather evening, a young lady consented to "love, 
honor and obey ' ' me. We now have two prospective gradu- 
ates of ' ' Old Nassau ' ' — one nine years old and the other 
five. If I had known the address of the Rev. "Mose" 
Kelly, I would have had him tie the knot. Outside of fre- 
quent attacks of the gout, I am all right. Present address 586 
Newark Ave., Jersey City, N. J. 



76 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865, 




JOHN UPSHUR DENNIS 



JOHN UPSHUR DENNIS. 

John Upshur Dennis, Judge of the Supreme Bench of Balti- 
more City, was born on the 14th day of June, 1846, at Kings- 
ton, Somerset County, Maryland. He was educated at the 
old Washington Academy, Princess Anne, Somerset County, 
and at Princeton, where he graduated in 1865. 

Subsequently he entered the law school of the University of 
Virginia, where he graduated in 1868. After practicing his 
profession for a short time at Norfolk, Virginia, and at Princess 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 77 

Anne and at Frederick, Maryland, he removed to Baltimore, 
and with John Scott formed the law firm of Dennis & Scott, 
which existed until the death of Mr. Scott. 

Judge Dennis was appointed a member of the Supreme 
Bench of Baltimore City by Governor Henry Lloyd, to suc- 
ceed Judge William A. Fisher, who resigned from the Bench 
on January 4th, 1887 ; and the following autumn he was elected 
on the Democratic ticket, without opposition, for the full term 
of fifteen years. At that time Judge Dennis was only forty- 
one years old, and was the youngest member of the Supreme 
Bench. 

At the expiration of his first term, on November 8th, 1902, 
Judge Dennis was appointed by Governor John Walter Smith 
to fill the interim between the expiration of his term and the 
election of a successor, which took place in November, 1903, 
when he was elected to succeed himself. 

In 1 88 1 Judge Dennis married Miss Fannie Murdoch, of 
Mississippi, and they have two children, Dora Louise Dennis 
and John Murdoch Dennis, who is in the grain commission 
business in Baltimore. 

Judge Dennis is a son of the late ex-United States Senator 
George R. Dennis, who after serving one term in the House 
of Delegates and two in the Senate of Maryland, was in 1872 
elected Senator of the United States for six years from March 
4th, 1873. And his mother was Louisa A. Joynes, daughter 
of the late Thomas R. Joynes, of Accomac County, Virginia, 
who occupied a leading position in his county as a lawyer; 
was Clerk of the Court for many years, served in the State 
Legislature, and was a member of the Virginia Constitutional 
Convention of 1829 and 1830, where he took an active and 
prominent part in the debates of that noted assembly. 

Dannock Dennis, son of John Dennis, the first settler, 
located in Somerset County, Maryland, in 1665. He was a 
man of influence in the early days of the colony. His son, 
John Dennis, the direct ancestor of Judge John Upshur Den- 
nis, was for many years one of the Judges of the Provincial 
Court, having been appointed to that position in 17 10. 
Littleton Dennis, a son of Judge John Dennis, was also a 



78 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

prominent lawyer and was for many years a Judge of the 
Court of Appeals of Maryland. 

The family of Judge Dennis has been one of the most con- 
spicuous in political life and in the number of years of judicial 
service of any in the State of Maryland, 

And it is most interesting to note the inheritance from 
generation to generation, extending over a period of nearly two 
hundred years, through this long ancestral line of men en- 
dowed with superior legal talent and eminent judicial ability. 

[Dennis entered February, 1863. Roomed 29 and 13 West. 
Whig. Literary editor and won a Hall medal. For some 
time now (August, 1906) Dennis has been in poor health, and 
by the great kindness of Abert we have his picture and story, 
both of which bring much honor to '65. — C. F. R.] 



CHARLES S. DEWING. 

Born 1840. Entered August, 1861. Roomed 10 North 
and Refectory. Clio. Taught at Edgehill during Senior 
year. Entered Princeton Theological Seminary in fall of 
1865. Married after graduation and went to California for 
six years, suppl3dng several churches. 

From 1874 to 1884 was pastor at Union, N. Y., followed 
by two years at Academia, Pa., and then pastor of Union 
Square Presbyterian Church, Somerville, Mass., where he re- 
sided at the time of his death, October 20, 1901. He left 
five children, two boys and three girls. — C. F. R. 



RICHARD B. DILWORTH. 

Entered the class of '64, and left at end of Soph year for nine 
months' life in the Army, and joined our class in August, 
1863. Whig. Roomed i East and 8 North. After gradua- 
tion was mining clerk in Colorado to 1867. Taught in Kansas, 
1867 to 1874, and was pastor of Presbyterian Church in Union 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 79 

City, Pa., 1874 to 1884, and Home Missionary in Washington 
and Oregon, 1884 to 1901, when he became Principal of 
Oxford Institute at Oxford, Pa. Subsequently he retired 
from active teaching and on October 17, 1906, he was assaulted 
by some colored men while passing along the street, receiving 
a severe wound on the forehead. He was dazed for awhile, 
but reached the house of a friend for supper. The next morn- 
ing he was missing, and for some days search was made by the 
G. A. R., of which he was a member, and the civil authorities, 
as it was feared he had been murdered. Subsequently he 
seemed to find himself at Johnstown, Pa., and on reporting to 
the authorities there, he was placed in communication with 
his friends and taken home, in feeble health and mind affected 
by the blow. 

"Mose" Kelly heard of his misfortune and condition, and 
started to his relief. Of his success in Dilworth's behalf, I 
have asked him to furnish an account, which follows. — C. F. R. 

It was not thought advisable for him to return to Oxford, . 
on account of the intensity of the race feeling, so he stopped 
at West Chester, and remained in the hospital there for more 
than a week. Kelly went down to visit him, but found he had 
left that morning for Oxford. After telephoning Kelly spent 
nearly all day in the interminable suburban trolley cars which 
drag their weary length through that region and found him, 
at the home of friends, weak but in good spirits. He sends- 
cheerful greetings to his old classmates. He has since re- 
moved to Newton, N. J. (which is his permanent address), 
where he is among friends and recovering from the effects of 
the cowardly attack upon him. 



THOMAS DOBBIN. 

Born in Canada in 1840. Entered Princeton College, Au- 
gust, 1862. Roomed 18 West. Whig. Entered Princeton 
Theological Seminary fall of 1865, and graduated April, 1868, 
and went to Groveland, N. Y., where he was ordained and 



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installed pastor of that church. After a little over seven 
years there, he went in 1875 to Morristown, N. Y., where he 
spent thirteen years as pastor. 

In September, 1888, he moved to Dry Run, Pa., to the 
pastorate of the Upper Path Valley Church. Was married 
February, 1875, to Sarah Bigelow, a daughter of one of the 
elders of the Groveland Church. 

From over-exertion at a fire near his house at Dry Run he 
became exhausted and died after a short illness, March 26, 1900. 




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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 81 



NICHOLAS C. J. ENGLISH. 

English entered the class of '65 in August, 1862, and gradu- 
ated, having the philosophical oration. He was born at 
Liberty Corner, Somerset County, New Jersey, November 4, 
1842, a small village among the hills of New Jersey. His 
father was pastor of the Presbyterian Church at that place, and 
was settled there for thirty-five years. He prepared for col- 
lege at Basking Ridge, New Jersey, distant four miles from 
Liberty Corner, going back and forth every day, and much 
of the time walking the whole distance. At this same school, 
which was conducted by Walter L. Rankin, of the class of '58, 
Arrowsmith and Ed. P. Rankin also prepared. On entering 
college he became a member of Clio Hall, and won the medal 
for prize essay in Hall. After graduation he acted as private 
tutor in the preparation of some boys for college, for a year 
and a half, in the meantime studying law, and then entered the 
law ofhce of his brother, James R. English, of the class of '61, 
and took up his abode at Elizabeth, New Jersey, where he 
has continued ever since. English's life has been that of a 
busy, hard-working lawyer, and the rewards that have come 
to him are such as are incident to that profession. 

Political life is contrary to his inclinations, but he has 
occupied some positions of responsibility. For four years he 
was a member of the Common Council of the city of Eliza- 
beth. In 1898 he was appointed by the Governor Prosecutor 
of the Pleas or, as it is in other States called, District Attorney 
of Union County, New Jersey, a position which he still holds. 
He has also held many positions as Director and Trustee in 
various financial and beneficial corporations, and much of his 
time has been taken in the advancement of railroad interests, 
both'as a Director and counsel of various railroads. He has 
also been a Director of the First National Bank of Elizabeth, 
and is now a Director of the Union County Trust Compan}^; 
is a Trustee of the Pingry School which sends many boys to 
Princeton, and is and for years has been President of the 
Young Men's Christian Association of Elizabeth. 
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82 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

Politically, he is and always has been a Republican, 
although he retains and exercises the right to vote independ- 
ently when men or raeasures are not in accordance with his 
views and standards. 

In religious matters he is a Presbyterian, and is an elder in 
the Second Presbyterian Church of Elizabeth, and for many 
years has conducted a large Bible Class of adults connected 
with that institution. It is safe to say that he has received 
more satisfaction from matters pertaining to affairs of church, 
and the advancement of its interests, than from any other 
source of his busy connections. 

Pecuniarily, his condition is that which Agur prayed for; 
that is, he has neither poverty nor riches. He lives in a com- 
fortable home in the city, and in the summer moves to the 
farm where he was born, in Somerset County. This farm has 
been in the family for generations, and he is the fifth person in 
descent who has owned and occupied it. The original pur- 
chase dates far back beyond the Revolutionary War; and it 
was working on this farm when a boy and in vacation time 
of his college life that gave him the stock of health which has 
for so many years withstood the exacting demands of a most 
laborious profession. 

Professionally, English is a lawyer with a substantial prac- 
tice. His business has taken him through the Courts of New 
Jersey, and also before the Supreme Court of the United 
States. His married life has been all that can be desired 
between husband and wife. On the sixteenth day of June» 
1906, he celebrated his thirty-sixth marriage anniversary. 
Two children, both boys, have been born to him; one of 
whom, the elder, died soon after entering his Freshman class 
at Princeton (class of '94). The second son, Conover English, 
class of '99, is now a lawyer, practicing in Newark, and a 
member of the firm of McCarter & English. Mr. McCarter, 
class of '79, the other member of the firm, being the Attorney- 
General of New Jersey. 

He has good health and continues in the active practice of 
his profession. He is very emphatic in the belief that regular 
habits, a temperate life, and continuous industry promote 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 83 

health and happiness. Work is considered as one of our 
greatest blessings. 

To all the members of the class of '65 he sends greetings. 
Wherever they meet they will always find in him a brother. 



WILLIAM S. FARRAND. 

Entered in August, 1862. Roomed at 35 North. Left in 
March, 1864, and died in April from the effects of a cold 
combined with the measles. Clio. His home was in Mont villa, 
New Jersey.— C. F. R. 



WILLIAM H. FLEMING. 

Born August 23d, 1844, in Philadelphia. Educated in 
public schools of Philadelphia, from primary to end of two 
years' course in Central High School. Then entered private 
school of Rev. David Malin, D.D., with whom I studied Latin 
and Greek for one year, at end of which time I entered Prince- 
ton, autumn, 1861. Remained there but a few months, when 
I was compelled to leave by trouble with my eyes. During 
winter 1861-62 went to Europe. Re-entered Princeton, 
autumn, 1862, but again compelled to leave on account of eye 
trouble. In 1900 received honorary degree of Master of 
Arts from Princeton for my work in Shakespearian literature. 
I am author of "A Bibliography of First Folios (Shakespeare) 
in New York City"; "How to Study Shakespeare" (four 
volumes published ; fifth and last volume ready) ; * ' Shakes- 
peare's Plots: A Study in Dramatic Construction"; Editor 
"Much Ado About Nothing, ' ' I and II "Henry IV," Bankside 
Edition of Shakespeare; also of monographs on Shakespearian 
themes published in Werner's Magazine, in which I edited a 
department, ' ' Shakespeariana, ' ' for several years. 

I was editor of The Looker On, a magazine, ' ' dramatic, 
musical, literary, ' ' for two years. 



84 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 




WILLIAM H. FLEMING 



Am at present, and have been for seven years, a lecturer on 
staff of Board of Education of Greater New York on Shakes- 
pearian Literature. Unmarried. Present address, 60 West 
38th Street, New York City. 



ALEXANDER GIBBY. 

Born at Rahway, N. J., February 4th, 1845- Was prepared 
at the Model School, Trenton, N. J., and entered Fresh in fall 
of 1861. Roomed in town. Whig. "Took high" while 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 85 

with US. Left at end of Soph year on account of hemorrhage 
of lungs. Traveled for a while and entered the real estate 
brokerage business in Rahway, when his health again failed 
him. He died April 7th, 1868.— C. F. R. 



WILLIAM H. GRANT. 

Born at Trenton, N. J., October 15th, 1845. Fitted at 
Lawrenceville High School and entered Princeton, February, 
1863. Roomed 46 North and 11 East. Clio. Entered 
business in Trenton after graduating, real estate and horses 
chiefly. Has not been seen by many of the class of late years, 
leading a very retired life. Some one has told your Historian 
Billy has changed very much from what he was when with us. 
— C. F. R. 



FRANK H. GREENE. 

Whatever could be of interest to others, in the record of my 
life, might be given in a very few words. Had not our Editor 
fixed a minimum of space to be filled, I should be tempted to 
say little more than might be carved upon the marker of my 
final resting place. 

I first saw the light at Peekskill, New York, a beautiful 
village situated in the Highlands of the Hudson, April 19th, 
1842, On the paternal side, my ancestors were from the earli- 
est English settlers in New England, while my mother's 
people were from the Dutch who made New Amsterdam their 
home in the New World. I don't know that any of my fore- 
fathers highly distinguished themselves, but I have reason 
to believe that they filled every station to which they were 
called, whether on field of battle or ordinary pursuits of life, 
with credit to themselves and for good of the country. I am 
not of a race of heroes, unless they be called heroic who, seeing 
their duty, however humble, do it. My pride is that I am, an 
American in every fibre of my being. 



86 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

My childhood and youth were spent in my native village, 
where, following the example of so many great men of this 
country, after graduating from the public school, I entered 
the printing office of the local paper. Passing through the 
several grades of devil, I reached the sublime degrees of 
journeyman, reporter, sub-editor, et al. While engaged in 
this work, I became aware of my limited educational qualifica- 
tions for newspaper work and began preparation for a college 
course. Receiving encouragement from my family, I studied 
under a former instructor at Princeton, and in due time, with 
a fair amount of Latin, Greek and mathematics and a strong 
predilection for Old Nassau, matriculated at that institution. 

The years spent in Princeton were, without doubt, among 
the happiest of my life. Free from care and anxiety, with 
little real hard work in order to keep up a fair standing in 
class, and with so many pleasant hours in association with 
classmates on campus and surrounding country, the days, 
all too short in the passing, left a most delightful memory 
for the after years. There was little to mar the pleasure of 
my college course. But one man ever tried to do me harm. 
He attacked me in my weakest point, borrowed my allowance 
and though bearing an honored Scotch name, he departed 
from college leaving behind a most unsavory reputation. 

I have ever been pleased that it was my good fortune to 
present myself for admission to the class of '65 in the Fresh- 
man year. While all the men of the class have held a. very 
warm place in my affections, the boys who with me enjoyed 
the pleasure and endured the buffets peculiar to the verdant 
Freshman have been especially dear to me. I entered the 
class at the beginning of the winter term. My first recitation 
was in Geometry. As this was my first appearance in the 
classroom, I was especially nervous. Good fortune gave me 
the Pons Asinorum for demonstration. The recitation was 
a fowl, and I was adopted into full membership of the class 
by a free demonstration of stamping and hand clapping, 
which did me more good than the tutor's rating of 100 per cent. 

I seldom think of my classmates as I have seen them at 
reunions, with gray heads and stooping shoulders — men 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 87 

crowned with honors achieved in professional or business 
careers — but as youths, full of life and activity, as they ap- 
peared on the campus and in the classroom. To me all are as 
boys of '65, full of hope and aYnbition. 

The college of to-day is, no doubt, in many respects, vastly 
superior to that of the olden times^; but I find so little of our 
day left to Old Nassau, that when I visit the Alma Mater, I 
am almost lost, and long for the old home as it was when we 
sported on the campus. But enough of old days. What of 
the succeeding years? 

Owing to an uncertain state of health, I was unable to 
engage in study for professional work, such as I had planned 
for upon entering college. It had been my purpose to enter 
the Gospel ministry, but my purposes were entirely changed, 
probably with no loss to the pulpit. For several years I 
made my home, first in the South and then in the Northwest, 
where for the most part I was engaged in teaching, and 
regaining the health- and strength I so much needed for life's 
work. 

During the reconstruction period I made South Carolina 
my home, and engaged in building operations. In this work 
I was quite successful, so much so that I determined to 
increase my family by one. In the autumn of 1869 I married 
Miss Jeannette Lobdell, of New York. We made our home in 
Orangeburg, S. C, a pleasant village about eighty miles from 
Charleston. Clafiin University, one of the State agricul- 
tural colleges, was located at the place. I became Treasurer 
and Trustee of the institution and lived on the campus. My 
eldest son was born here in 1-870. 

Finding that a permanent home in the South was not 
wholly desirable, I returned to New York after a few years, 
and turned my attention to educational matters. I engaged 
in teaching, and for many years attained some success in that 
profession. I am proud of many of the men who were pre- 
pared for college and the Government schools under my 
tutorship. The learned professions, army and business life 
have been honored by some of my boys; and I often think 



88 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

that I have been more than compensated for the turning of my 
life from the work which I first contemplated. 

For the past fifteen years I have been in Government em- 
ploy, and am still doing duty in the New York Custom House, 
where I hope to remain during the remainder of my active life. 

My children while young were a great pleasure to me, and 
were entirely under my personal care while pursuing their 
studies. Now that they have reached maturity, they are a 
source of pride to their parents. 

My eldest son, Everett L., born in 1870 or thereabouts — I 
find myself weak in dates — is a graduate of Princeton of the 
class of '93. After a post-graduate course in Princeton and 
the University of Kansas he adopted the profession of elec- 
trical engineer, and is now with the Metropolitan Railroad 
Co., of New York City. 

My daughter, Jeannette L., remains at home, still main- 
taining her ' ' maiden fancy free, ' ' which we hope may not be 
disturbed. 

Joseph A., my youngest child, is a graduate of Cornell 
University, where he obtained honors in the Law Department, 
and is now practicing his profession in Cold Spring, New York. 
He is the father of my only grandchild, who bears his grand- 
father's name. 

I am now living in New York City, at 370 W. ii8th Street. 
My work is not laborious, and my pleasures are simple. A 
quiet smoke, a walk in the park, a greeting of a friend and I 
am content. The red letter days in my calendar are the 
reunions of the class and an occasional meeting with one of 
the old boys of '65. 

Pardon my prolixity. It has resulted more from the many 
crowding memories of the old days than from the infirmities 
of a second childhood, though the stiffened joints and bald 
head denote the approach of that period. 

The class of '65 is growing smaller as the years crowd each 
other into eternity, and in a short while the roll will be called 
for the last time. As we pass on to the other shore, I am 
assured that it will matter not so much what great thing we 
may have accomplished, but what good have we done. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 89 

[F. Greene was a Clio, and roomed 27 East. An interesting 
account of his life in the South in Reconstruction days may 
be found in the class book issued in 1890. — C. F. R.] 



JOSEPH MILTON GREENE. 

[There are heroes of various sorts in various spheres of duty, 
but when we read the story that follows, told in such a quiet 
way, yet forceful, we all must be heartily thankful that J. M. 
Greene was a member of '65. He entered in August, 1861. 
Roomed 4 and 11 West and 13 East. Clio, and won Hall 
medal for original speaking, which he wore at our reunion in 
June, 1865. Took "first" with Hunt, first quarter Senior 
year, and second philosophical oration at Commencement. — 
C. F. R.] 

Our reunion was a great comfort and inspiration to me. 
Somehow the world seems warmer and more kindly ever since. 
After leaving Princeton I had a delightful little visit with Jo 
(Judge) Cross and Nick English. What fine men they are 
and what splendid careers they are having! Now as to my 
autobiography. It is a very insignificant affair, but you shall 
have it for what it is worth. If I have amounted to anything 
in the world, I owe it mainly under God to Princeton and its 
associations. My mental awakening and culture, my insight 
into truth and enthusiasm for Christ and humanity, my sym- 
pathy with the great missionary enterprises of the Christian 
Church, and my choicest and most enduring friendships, in- 
cluding that which ripened into marriage and sanctified my 
home — all these I trace to Princeton as their source. When I 
recall, as I do very often, the faces of Drs. McLean, Duffield, 
Atwater, Guyot, Giger, Alexander and Mcllvaine, as well as 
our good tutors, Kenyon, Reed and Condit, they seem to have 
accompanied me during all my active life as guardian and 
guiding spirits, and my only regret is that I have not made 
more of the instruction and moral influence with which they 
favored us. 



pO HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

I was born at Smithtown, Long Island, N. Y., August nth, 
1842, being the youngest of eleven children. My father died 
two years later, and at nine years of age I left my mother's 
side to earn my own living. Working on a farm or at the car- 
penter's bench during nine months of the year and attending 
the district school in the winter, I made my way until I reached 
my sixteenth year when, having confessed the Lord Jesus as 
my Saviour, I found in my pastor a truly fatherly friend, by 
whose counsels and teachings my thoughts were turned to the 
ministry, and at nineteen years of age I found myself, one day 
in September, 1861, riding up in the stage from the old Prince- 
ton depot alongside the canal, in company with "Dory " Hunt, 
and like him a candidate for admission to the Freshman class. 
How cordially we were received and cared for by Johnny 
McLean, and how entirely at our ease he made us feel the next 
morning when we appeared before him for examination! 
Seldom since have I felt as important and self-satisfied as I 
did on leaving that study with the seal of Johnny's approba- 
tion on what seemed to me very insufficient preparation. 
From childhood I had been a great stammerer, and this had 
tended to make me bashful and self -distrustful, so that but for 
the encouragement given me by my pastor, I never should 
have presumed to enter the ministry. But here I was, a full- 
fledged Freshman, fairly started on a career whose goal was 
the sacred ministry. I seemed to walk on air, and words were 
poor to express my gratitude to God. How I struggled 
through those four years you all know. During my Sopho- 
more and Junior vacations I trudged over the hills of Orange 
County, N. Y., carrying a market basket of books as a col- 
porteur of the Presbyterian Board of Publication. In those 
eleven weeks I sold $600 worth of books, and learned to know 
and talk with all classes of people. My Senior vacation I 
spent on a farm in the same county. Entering the seminary 
at Princeton, I pursued my theological course there until the 
middle of my second year, when by invitation of the Univer- 
sity Place Church in New York City I took charge of their 
Sixth Avenue Mission and continued my studies in Union 
Seminary, where I graduated in 1868. The summer after my 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 9I 

first seminary year I spent as a City Missionary in Brooklyn, 
in connection with the City Park Chapel of the First Presby- 
terian Church. In July, 1867, I was married to Miss Annie 
Virginia Kemble, of Bridgeboro, N. J., whom I had known 
as a teacher in the public school at Princeton. In May, 
1868, I was ordained by the Presbytery of Brooklyn and 
installed as pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, situated 
in Jay Street. Two years later this church was united with 
the Second, formerly Dr. Spencer's, taking its name and 
occupying its edifice, corner Clinton and Fulton Streets. I 
remained as pastor of the united church until May, 1873, 
when I was invited by the Calvary Presbyterian Church of 
West New Brighton, Staten Island, to be their first pastor. 
Our first child, now the wife of Rev. Clarence W. Rouse, of 
Newton, N. J., was born in Brooklyn in November, 1868, 
and Milton, our eldest son, four years later. On Staten 
Island two more sons were born to us and also a daughter, 
now the wife of Rev. -Herbert S. Harris, of Sancti Spiritus, one 
of my associates. We spent eight happy years in that church, 
and saw it grow to a large and very influential organization. 
During my early pastorate there I had declined a call from 
the Presbytery of Rio Janeiro, Brazil, to be a co-worker with 
the late Dr. Chamberlain, the reason being that the Board of 
Foreign Missions did not feel warranted in sending out so 
large a family of children. But in September of 1881 I 
accepted an invitation of the Board to labor in Southern 
Mexico, and spent ten years in that work, preaching, teaching, 
translating and doing editorial work in connection with our 
mission press and paper which I established in 1886. In 
1892 my health gave out under the strain of work and separa- 
tion from my family, which I had to endure for the last seven 
years, as a necessity in order to the education of the children. 
Resigning my commission I returned to the States, and in 
January, 1893, was installed as pastor of the First Presby- 
terian Church of Fort Dodge, Iowa, where I remained for seven 
years or until the close of the Spanish-American War, when I 
accepted an appointment from the Presbyterian Board of 
Home Missions to establish work in San Juan, Porto Rico. 



92 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

While at Fort Dodge, I had been able to build up a congrega- 
tion at a point in the country thirteen miles distant, and left 
them organized as a church and comfortably housed in a neat 
edifice. After eighteen months in Porto Rico, during which 
I gathered a church of eighty members and built an edifice 
at a cost of $7,000, the Board removed me to Cuba to organize 
their work there, with residence in Havana. During these 
four years I have seen twenty preaching stations established, 
six churches organized, five day schools opened with ten 
teachers employed, and the foundations laid for a widely ex- 
tended and enduring work. A Presbytery has been organized 
with six ordained members, one licentiate and four candidates 
for the ministry. Besides preaching in English and Spanish 
to our central congregation in this city, I have charge of the 
colportage work of the American Tract Society on the island 
and edit a weekly Spanish paper published by them and called 
Manzanas de Oro (Apples of Gold). Property has now been 
purchased for our new church edifice, to build which a Mrs. 
McGregor, of Detroit, has given $25,000. The plans have 
been forwarded for her approval, and I hope to begin work 
within a month's time. It will be the first evangelical church 
building in Havana, and will conform to the most approved 
style of modern church architecture. I may also add that I 
have translated into Spanish Hodge's "Way of Life," Nair's 
* * Evidences of Christianity ' * and ' ' Drummond's Natural Law 
in the Spiritual World. ' ' 

It will be of interest, too, if I state that a sixth child was born 
to us in Mexico and that he is now, at twenty-one years of age, 
a Sophomore at Princeton and a student for the ministry. 

I count it a great privilege to have been permitted an 
humble part in the great missionary work on behalf of these 
spiritually deceived and defrauded Latin peoples. I have 
given fifteen years to them and wish they might be multiplied 
to 150. The truest joy of life I have found in the voluntary 
offering of body, mind and spirit for the physical, intellectual 
and spiritual uplifting of earth's suffering millions, in obedi- 
ence to Christ's command. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 93 



WILLIAM BREWER GRIFFITH. 

Born in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, January 23d, 
1843. Fitted privately. Entered February, 1863. Roomed 
22 West, in town, and 7 West. Clio. 

Studied law in Baltimore, and afterwards studied and prac- 
ticed medicine with much success. Was married. His 
health broke down, resulting in his death about 1880. 

As a matter of history, I suppose "Grif" was the saddest 
one in college, if possible, the morning after Lincoln was 
shot. Passing by the south entry of West, about eight o'clock, 
after the news had reached Princeton, I found * ' Grif, ' ' seated 
on the step, crying as if he had lost his dearest friend. Asking 
him what was the trouble, he replied: "It is all up with us 
now, Ninety-eight. ' ' And it was some minutes before I 
could find out what was the trouble. He was strongly de- 
voted to the South, and in his sincerity there was no one who 
did not respect hini for it, if not agreeing with him in his 
views.— C. F. R. 

WILLIAM J. GRIM. 

[Born at Allentown, Pa., October 24th, 1842. Entered 
Princeton August 14th, 1862, after fitting at Allentown 
Academy. Roomed 24 North. Clio. Engaged in news- 
paper work in Allentown, New York City, Philadelphia, and 
since 1884 in Allentown. Lately he has retired from specific 
newspaper duties and is engaged in general literary work. 
Hence he is specially fitted to prepare the following too brief 
a sketch.— C. F. R.] 

A man who has spent the greater part of his life in journalism 
is, almost invariably, averse to parading himself and his doings 
in cold type. He has a surfeit of the self-eulogium business so 
many men and women are constantly engaged in, and, like the 
boy in the cemetery who, after he had read all the inscriptions 
on the headstones and monuments, asked where the bad 
people were buried, he wonders where the people reside who 
do not hanker after some sort of selfish notoriety. 



94 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

So, availing myself of my professional prerogative, I pro- 
pose to talk about others in the main, and but prefatorily of 
myself alone. This may not be exactly what our venerable 
and respected class Historian desires, but, as must the man 
who asks another for a dinner, he will have to take what falls — 
the giver's privilege, or advantage if you wish, being beyond 
the appellate reach of even Judge Cross' Court. 

To begin then : 

About my first reminiscential recollection of Princeton, 
after that of my examination for admission, is one which is 
perhaps shared by some who may read this, though I am not 
referring to it here in any spirit of pride. As soon as I found 
myself ' ' solid, ' ' I concluded to do what I had never been 
permitted to do at home, viz. : smoke a pipe. So I hied my- 
self to the little one-story shop just below the Mansion House, 
where the obsequious proprietor, a tall, thin, nasal-voiced 
Yankee I knew later as "Killikinick," sold me a genuine(?) 
briarwood pipe and a package of the proprietor's namesake, 
and, a little later on, you ought to have seen the thick clouds 
of blue, air-castle-laden smoke which issued from an open 
window in my room at the hotel and vanished into nothing, 
where they still remain. 

The next day I was "located," as President McLean 
expressed it, in 24 North, where I remained during all of my 
course, having as constant neighbors, immediately across the 
way, two classmates, Archibald MacMartin and Tom Raftery 
— as fine fellows as ever drew mortal breath. To remember 
them is a pleasure ; to have had them as friends an honor. 

And this brings me to what I will, by a little stretch of 
meaning, call the Quadrilateral (I would have said Siamese 
Twins, had there been two pairs of them). This four-sided 
* * structure ' ' consisted of Butler, Raftery, Sloss and — and — 
well, myself. The reader may imagine Quartette would, 
count considered, have been a more fitting name than that I 
have given "we four"; but I think I know better, for, of the 
four of us, each had his own peculiar side, though the com- 
bination certainly contained four right angles. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 95 

Bless me ! what Saturday evenings ' ' we four ' ' had in But- 
ler's den, on the first floor of West College, north end! Such 
realistic charades! such soul-elevating recitations and read- 
ings ! such rib-tickling stories ! such cheese and cracker lunches ! 
such big stone pitchers of ' ' contraband ' ' smuggled from Charlie 
Cook's Arctic Circle! And, I wonder, does Lish remember "The 
Romance of a Card ' ' — one of Tom Raftery 's ? He ought to, for 
he gave me. the numerous letters to copy, and I read my full 
story to him and Tom, chapter by chapter, as each was com- 
pleted. But it seems to me now the hero and heroine got lost 
somewhere in a forest of counterfeit photos, assumed names 
and false loves before the tale was completed. What says my 
one-time "butty^'? Has my memory played me false? 

But, alack! West College with all its pleasant memories, 
like East College, the Laboratory Building and Cam and 
Guyot's old-fashioned Stone Palace, each with all theirs, has 
gone the way of the incense of my first pipe-smoke, and naught 
save the recollection 'now remains. 

As I sit here thumbing the leaves of my diary, penned in 
those far-away days, I find page after page of things I'd be 
pleased to recall to mind and perchance to dilate upon; but, 
to tell the truth, I scarcely know where to begin, or where, 
having once begun, I can make a satisfactory ending short of 
half a volume. So I have sagely concluded not to try. 

However, there is one thing further I will do — lay wreaths 
of affectionate remembrance upon the graves of those who 
have preceded us to the great unknown Beyond — the genial, 
ever honorable MacMartin; the jovial, big-hearted Raftery; 
the Forrest-like, always sociable Sloss; the conscientious, self- 
sacrificing Bishop Boone; the martyr missionary, the kindly- 
minded McChesney ; the gentle Haslam ; the nervously energetic 
Wetherill; the stately Stratton, and dozens more. Who that 
knew them intimately can fail to revere their memories, or to 
remember their innate virtues ? 

"There's something in the parting hours 
Will still the warmest heart ; 
Yet kindred, comrades, cherished friends 
Are fated all to part. 



96 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

But this I've seen — and many a pang 

Has pressed it on my mind — 
The one who goes is happier 

Than those who stay behind. ' ' 

In conclusion now, and in all sincerity, there was something 
unusually substantial about '65, as the list of survivors shows. 
Hunt, Grummon, McClellan, the Greenes, Cross, English, 
Imbrie, Riggs, Jessup, Dennis, McCammon, Logan and numer- 
ous others — all are an honor to the class and have been, each 
in his sphere, an honor to themselves and to their country 
during all the years since graduation day. I do not say this 
boastfully and as if to steal a feather for my own cap, but as a 
fact to be sincerely proud of, since in a class of almost eighty, 
as was ours, it is not often so many make marks which Time 
will be powerless to efface. ' ' Long may the yet surviving 
'boys' of '65 go on reaping the just reward of their merits!" 
sums up my earnest wish and prayer. 



DANIEL NEILL GRUMMON. 

[Born at Newark, N. J., February 20th, 1844. Fitted at 
Newark. Entered August, 1862. Roomed 51 and 53 North. 
Clio. Took "first," second quarter Senior year. J. O. and 
valedictorian at Commencement. Taught a few months at 
Lawrenceville High School in fall of 1865, and in spring of 

1866 began reading law with Judge Amzi Dodd in Newark. 
Entered Union Theological Seminary, in New York City, in 

1867 and graduated in 1870. Licensed to preach by Presby- 
tery of Newark in spring of 1870, and supplied the pulpit of 
the Presbyterian Church in Otego, Otsego County, N. Y., for 
the year 187 1. In March, 1873, went to Bainbridge, Chenango, 
N. Y., and on November nth, 1873, was ordained and installed 
as pastor of the Bainbridge Presbyterian Church, where he 
remained until July, 1892, when — but why not let Dan speak 
forhimself?— C. F. R.] 

The report of 1890 left me in Bainbridge, Chenango County, 
New York, where I remained for nineteen years in all, preach- 



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97 



ing the Gospel in the Presbyterian Church of that village. In 
July, 1892, I came to the Ross Memorial Presbyterian Church 
of the city of Binghamton, New York, where I have continued 
to this day, holding the Gospel fort according to the Confession 
of Faith of the Presbvterian Church in the United States of 




D. N. GRUMMON 



America. All of my ministerial life has been passed in the 
bounds of the Presbytery of Binghamton, of which body from 
time immemorial I was Permanent Clerk, and in 1901 I was 
chosen Stated Clerk. 

The event most interesting to me, and altogether the most 
remarkable since the record of 1890, was my marriage on 
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98 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

May 24th, 1905, to Miss Mary W. Edgerton, of Binghamton. 
The constant advice of my friends of the class of '65, after 
many years, has brought forth fruit. In 1903 Miss Edgerton 
and I crossed and recrossed the continent together, to attend 
the General Assembly in Los Angeles, California, and the 
delights of this companionship led us to journey through life 
together. My single blessedness was happy, and my double 
blessedness is doubly happy. 



i WILLIAM E. GUY. 

Dear Richardson:— ^Your circular, 2d January, I found 
among papers here on my desk upon return from Pasadena, 
Cal., where we spent the winter. 

1. I shall try to be in Princeton at class meeting, although 
not sure to come, and am agreeable to anything majority 
want. 

2. Have no choice for Representative, as I don't know who 
may be best speaker. One thing I do know — Fm not; but 
probably the poorest — always was a poor orator. 

3. Just as majority want. 

Born December 2 2d, 1844, in Cincinnati, O. (Father, Med. 
Doc.) 

Aetat. 3-5. Learned to read and write at home. 

Aetat. 5-6. Private school of Miss Rachel Bodley (who was 
later Dean of Medical College in Philadelphia). 

Aetat. 6-9. Public school, under Miss Louise McLaughlin, 
who was later rediscoverer(?) of underglaze — now "Rook- 
wood ' ' pottery — Cincinnati, Ohio. 

Aetat. 9. Family removed to Oxford, O., seat of Miami 
University, where I was placed in "Model School" of A. G. 
Chambers (afterward head of Freehold (N. J.) School). 

Aetat. 11-14. Prepared for college by Prof. David Swing, 
(afterward of Chicago). 

Aetat. 14. Freshman cadet, Kentucky Military Institute. 

Aetat. 15-17. Freshman and Sophomore, Miami University. 



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Aetat 17 ('62). Enlisted as private, promoted First Lieuten- 
ant, Eighty-sixth Ohio Infantry Regiment. 

Aetat. 17 ('62). October, mustered out, returned to Miami 
University. 




WILLIAM E. GUY 



Aetat 18-20. Entered Princeton Junior; was graduated with 



'65. 



Aetat. 20-21. Heidelberg University, Germany. 
Aetat 21-24. Freiberg School of Mines, Germany. 



lOO HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

Aetat. 24. Paris, France, School of Mines and College de 
France. 

Aetat. 25-26. Mining Engineer and Assistant Superin- 
tendent Stewart Reduction Works, Colorado. 

Aetat. 27. Assistant Geologist (under Raphael Pumpelly), 
Missouri Geological Survey. 

Aetat. 27-41. Vice-President (active) and one of three 
founders of iron rolling mills at East St. Louis, 111. 

Aetat. 32-34. During dull business took full law course and 
LL.B., Cincinnati Law School. 

Aetat. 34. Returned to St. Louis and organized Tudor Iron 
Works. President. 

Aetat. 35. Consolidated with East St. Louis Works under 
name of Tudor Iron Works. 

Aetat. 41-42. Sold interest in Tudor Iron Works and traveled 
in California and Europe. 

Aetat. 43. Traveled in United States and Canada. 

Aetat. 45. Organized and President of St. Louis, Peoria and 
Northern Railway and Madison Coal Co. 

Aetat. 45-54. Building and operating St. Louis, Peoria and 
Northern Railway and Madison Coal Co. 

Aetat. 49. Married daughter of Dr. E. S. Lamoine, Prince- 
ton, '45, and traveled in Europe. 

Aetat. 54. Sold interest in St. Louis, Peoria and Northern 
Railway and Madison Coal Co. 

Aetat. 56-58. Organized and built St. Louis Valley Railway. 

Aetat. 57. Organized and reconstructed and built St. Louis 
and Gulf Railway. 

Aetat. 58. Sold interest in St. Louis Valley Railway and 
St. Louis and Gulf Railway. 

Aetat. 58-59. Retired and traveled with family in Europe. 

Aetat. 59-60. Wintered in Pasadena, Cal. (November, 1904,. 
to April, 1905). 

4. Don't know about other classmates, but shall be glad 
to hear about and see them. 

Yours truly, 

Wm. E. Guy. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. lOI 



JOHN K. HASLAM. 

Entered Freshman and remained to close of Junior year, 
when his health compelled him to go to Delaware, where he 
fell a victim to consumption, August 12th, 1864. See class 
book issued in 1868 for details. — C. F. R. 



JOHN C. HAY. 

Entered August, 1861, and was with us only during Fresh- 
man year. Took "first" twice. Made the first recitation in 
•class to Tutor Kenyon in Greek. Roomed in North. Clio. No 
further account is attainable, except that it is said he became 
a minister. — C. F. R. 



ANDREW D. HEPBURN. 

Came to '65 in February, 1863, from Williamsport, Pa., 
and left during spring of 1864, owing to poor health. Shortly 
after leaving us he became one of the officers of one of the 
interests closely allied to the Pennsylvania Railroad, the 
Empire Transportation Co., and afterwards Secretary of the 
Anchor Line with its several auxiliaries, besides being en- 
gaged in military service for nearly twelve years. Whig. I 
am unable to ascertain the date of his death, but it was since 
1890.— C. F. R. 



JOHN DUNBAR HEWITT. 

Born at Wysox, Bradford County, Pa., December 4th, 1838, 
of Scotch parentage, and was the third son. Fitted at Towanda, 
Pa., 1856-60. Entered August, 1861. Roomed 5 North, i 
Refectory and Edgehill. Class Treasurer. Whig. During 
his Senior year he enlisted in the Army and served six months, 
returning to college and graduating with his class. For two 
years after graduating he was Principal of Susquehanna Col- 



I02 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

legiate Institute, at Towanda, Pa., during which time he 
married Miss Susan D. Wood, of Kingston, N. Y., who died a 
number of years ago while he was pastor at Wichita, Kan. 

Hewitt entered Princeton Theological Seminary in the fall 
of 1867, graduating in 1870, and was ordained and went to the 
pastorate of the Kirkpatrick Memorial Church, Ringoes, N. J., 
where he had a very successful work of seven years. In 1877 
the way opened to follow an original purpose and earnest 
desire to engage in Home Mission Work and he was sent 
by the Home Mission Board to Helena, Montana, for two 
years, and resigned in 1879 to accept an appointment as 
Presbyterian Missionary in Montana. There not being funds 
in the hands of the Home Mission Board to support this work, 
he went to Kansas in 1879 as pastor of the First Presbyterian 
Church at Wichita, which soon became one of the strongest 
churches of the denomination in the West. Through Hewitt's 
energy five other churches were organized to meet the needs 
of Wichita and vicinity. 

No less was he interested in Christian education than in 
Home Missions, for during his pastorate at Wichita he was 
instrumental in founding Lewis Academy, now a well-estab- 
lished institution doing a good work. 

In June, 1887, he married Miss Lulu S. McCabe, of Topeka, 
Kan., daughter of the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church 
of Topeka, who shared with most heroic purpose and successful 
effort in his work for the College of Emporia. In 1889, Wooster 
University, Ohio, -conferred the degree of Doctor of Divinity 
on him. 

In the nine years and six months with the First Church of 
Wichita, 179 were received on examination and 403 by letter. 

In 1890 to 1892 he was pastor of the church in Arkansas 
City, Kan., from which church he went to assume the duties of 
Vice President and Financial Agent of the College of Emporia, 
Kansas, and afterwards its President. For nearly six years 
previous to his death he carried the burden of the financial 
care of the college, though he had said to his wife, " If I accept 
the post and undertake the work it will probably shorten my 
life ten years. ' ' 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I05 

Besides the financial interests he had a deep concern in and 
was in close sympathy with the students. 

In the midst of his labors he was stricken down with apo- 
plexy on March 31st, 1898, and passed away preacefully on 
April 20th. Hewitt was a man of very exalted purpose and 
most earnest worker, and his energy in college life was but a. 
type of his activity afterwards. The seed sown by him in: 
Kansas will bring more and more fruit as the years roll by. 



FRANCIS KITCHELL HOWELL. 

Born at Whippany, N. J., March 23d, 1843. Fitted at 
Newark, N. J., Academy, 1859-62. Entered August, 1862. 
Roomed 49 and 18 North and 10 East. Clio. Second debate 
medal in Hall. Metaphysical oration at Commencement. 
After graduation studied law in Newark, N. J., and was ad- 
mitted to the bar in 1869. Was elected to the New Jersey 
Assembly from Essex County in 1876, and for a number of 
years was counsel for the Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Co. of 
Newark, besides being a very successful member of the bar. 

He died on March 15th, 1899, from pneumonia after a 
week's illness, leaving a widow, two sons and four daughters. — 
C. F. R. 



THOMAS HUMPHRY. 

Entered during Freshman year from Cherry ville, Pa., but 
left in June, 1862, to join the Anderson Cavalry, when all trace 
of him became lost. Whig. Roomed 18 West. — C. F. R. 



THEODORE WHITEFIELD HUNT. 

Born at Metuchen, N. J., February 19th, 1844. Entered 
Princeton College, August, 1861. Graduated with the first 
honor, June, 1865. Taught at Edgehill School, Princeton, N. J., 



I04 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

1865-66. Studied theology at Union Seminary, New York, 
1866-68. Studied theology at Princeton Seminary, 1868-69. 
Graduated at Princeton Seminary, May, 1869. Licensed to 
preach by the Presbytery of Elizabeth, at Elizabeth, N. J., 
April, 1869. Tutor of English at Princeton College, 1868-71. 
Boudinot Fellow in Belles Lettres and Philosophy at Prince- 
ton College, 1869-70. Student in the University of Berlin, 
1871-72. Ordained by the Presbytery of Elizabeth, at Eliza- 
bethport, N. J., April, 1878. Adjunct Professor of English in 
Princeton College, 1873-81. Professor of English in Prince- 
ton University, 1881-190-. Degree of Ph.D. in 1880 from 
Lafayette College. Degree of Litt.D. in 1890 from Rutgers 
College. 



PUBLICATIONS. 

Caedmon's Exodus and Daniel, 1883. 

Principles of Written Discourse, 1884. 

English Prose and Prose Writers, 1887. 

Studies in Literature and Style, 1890. 

Ethical Studies in Old English Literature, 1894. 

American Meditative Lyrics, 1896. 

English Meditative Lyrics, 1899. 

Literature: Its Principles and Problems. Published by 
Funk & Wagnalls, N. Y. 

Papers to the American Philological and Modern Language 
Associations. 

Contributions to Reviews — Fonim, North American, Blblio- 
theca Sacra, etc. 

[Hunt fitted at Tarrytown, N. Y., 1859-60. Roomed 34 
North and 17 West. Clio. J. O. and took ''first" several 
times. 

In Mrs. Hunt, '65 had a warm friend, who took the deepest 
interest in the class and whose contributions of beauty to 
our repasts added so much to the pleasure of the meeting. 
In her death in June, 1906, the class was bereaved as well as 
her husband.— C. F. R.l 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I05 

WILLIAM IMBRIE. 

[Born at Rahway, N. J., January ist, 1845. Fitted at 
Quackenbos School, New York City. Entered Columbia 
College, October, i860, and Princeton, August, 1863. Roomed 
7 and 2 North and 26 West. Class Poet and poem at Com- 
mencement. Whig. We may congratulate ourselves on 
securing the following before Imbrie crossed the Pacific again. 
It speaks volumes. — C. F. R.] 

Newark, November 4th, 1905. 
Dear Richardson: 

Your letter, so kind and cordial, finds me with a mind busy 
with preparation for my speedy return to Japan ; but I gladly 
take time to send a few words of the years of my pilgrimage 
to those from whom I parted now forty years ago, and whom 
I have never forgotten. 

Directly after leaving college I entered an office in Wall 
Street, but my inclinations soon led me either to the law or 
the ministry, though for a time I could not decide between the 
two. While making up my mind I accepted a place on an 
engineer corps constructing a railroad in Pennsylvania, and 
in the following autumn I went to Princeton. After graduat- 
ing from the Theological Seminary and taking a post-graduate 
course, I became the pastor of a little church in the neighbor- 
hood of Paterson; but for a long time my thoughts had 
turned to Japan, and in 1875 I set sail. In 1873 I married 
Elizabeth Doremus Jewell, whom I had known from child- 
hood and who is still by my side. I have two sons who 
graduated at Princeton in 1901 and 1903, and are now in the 
Motive Power Department of the Pennsylvania Railroad. 
In 1884 I received from Princeton the degree of Doctor of 
Divinity. 

The history of Japan during the past fifty years has been a 
wonderful history. The opening of the country after long and 
strict seclusion; the restoration of the Emperor; the Imperial 
pledge that Japan should seek for knowledge far and wide; 
the introduction of the railroad, the newspaper and the 



Io6 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

university; the enactment of new codes of law; government 
under a Constitution; admission to a place of equality among 
the nations of the world ; the achievement of singular prestige 
under circumstances calling for a high degree of wisdom and 
energy; the conclusion of a great war in the spirit of self- 
control and moderation — that is a wonderful succession of 
events to be crowded into the short space of half a centur}^; 
and most of them I have seen with my own eyes. 

But to the thoughtful Christian mind, of all the wonderful 
events none is more wonderful than the progress of Chris- 
tianity. To quote from a statement recently made by the 
Prime Minister : * ' The number of those professing Christianity 
is a large one, with a much larger number of those who are 
Christian in their affiliations. Nor are the Japanese Chris- 
tians confined to any one rank or class. They are to be found 
among the members of the National Diet, the judges in the 
courts, the professors in the universities, the editors of leading 
secular newspapers, and the officers in the army and navy. 
Christian churches are to be found in every large city, and in 
almost every large town in the empire. ' ' Of all this progress 
I have been a witness, from almost the very beginning. When 
I reached Japan only four churches had been organized. 

The Church with which all Presbyterian and Reformed 
missionaries in Japan co-operate is a Japanese Church ecclesias- 
tically independent of all foreign bodies. It belongs to the 
Alliance of Presbyterian and Reformed Churches; but for 
historical reasons it bears the name. The Church of Christ in 
Japan. For in fact it was the first Protestant Church founded 
in the empire. From a little handful of believers I have seen 
it grow to become a Synod with six Presbyteries. It has 
seventy or eighty ministers, some seventy-five churches, 
many of which are entirely self-supporting, and a hundred 
congregations that will in time become regularly organized 
churches. There are 13,000 church members. The annual 
contributions amount to $20,000; and there is a Board of 
Home Missions whose income is now $4,000 a year. With the 
history of this Church my life has been bound up. I am not 
a minister of the Presbyterian Church in America; I am a 
minister of the little Church of Christ in Japan. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 107 

During nearly all the years that I have been in Japan I have 
been a teacher in our theological school; and perhaps I may 
say in passing that in my theological convictions I am a 
moderate liberal. I have written a number of books — a 
Grammar of the language, a "Life of Christ" for theological 
students, and Commentaries on several of the Epistles. It 
would take much too long to speak of all the problems that 
have thrust themselves forward for solution, and which have 
been full of interest for all those concerned with them. I 
must content myself with merely mentioning only three — the 
organization of one Japanese Church, with which all Presby- 
terian and Reformed missionaries co-operate ; the attempt to 
unite that church with the Congregational Churches — an 
attempt which failed at the time, but which may still prove 
the seed which shall yet grow into a rich harvest; and the 
establishment, after a long series of negotiations with the 
Department of Education, of the great principle of religious 
freedom in education in institutions maintained by private 
funds. 

As I look back over the years that are gone there is one 
event which I always remember with feelings of peculiar grati- 
tude. From the beginning the Japanese felt that the Con 
fessions of Faith of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches 
were not adapted to the Church of Christ in Japan ; but under 
the influence of the missionaries they yielded. As the years 
passed, however, the first conviction deepened, and it became 
clear that something must be done. The story is far too long 
to tell. I can only say that it fell to my lot to write a Con- 
fession which was cordially accepted by all; and you can 
easily believe that my heart sometimes rises within me when 
I go into a Japanese church and hear the congregation repeat 
the words as expressing the things surely believed by it. It 
is very brief, and I should like after all these years of separa- 
tion to repeat it as the confession of my own faith : 

' * The Lord Jesus Christ, whom we worship as God, the Only 
Begotten Son of God, for us men and for our salvation was 
made man and suffered. He offered up a perfect sacrifice for 
sin, and all whoare one with him by faith are pardoned and 



I08 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

accounted righteous, and faith in him working by love purifies 
the heart. The Holy Ghost, who with the Father and Son is 
worshiped and glorified, reveals Jesus Christ to the soul; and 
without his grace man, being dead in sin, cannot enter the 
Kingdom of God. By him the prophets and apostles and holy 
men of old were inspired; and he, speaking in the Scriptures of 
the Old and New Testaments, is the supreme and infallible 
judge in all things concerning faith and living. From these 
Holy Scriptures the ancient Church of Christ drew its con- 
fession; and we, holding to the faith once delivered to the 
saints, join in that confession with praise and thanksgiving. ' ' 
Then follows the Apostles' Creed. 

My life, as the lives of all, has had its shadows. There have 
been times in the history of the church when I could not 
sleep at night. In a very true sense I am a man without a 
country ; and as I go from place to place I seldom see a familiar 
face. I know, too, what it is to have a broken household. But 
my life has been one full of interest ; it has been a great privi- 
lege to have a part in the founding and establishment of the 
Church of Christ in Japan ; and sometimes it has been a comfort 
at least to think that my life has counted for more in Japan 
than it would have done in America. 

Sincerely yours, 

William Imbrie. 

Address in Japan: Meiji Gakuin Shirokane Mura, Tokyo, 
Japan. 



PETER JACOBUS, JR. 

Born March, 1847, ^^^ entered Soph, leaving class end of 
Junior year. Clio. Youngest member of class. Roomed in 
east end of North, third floor. Spent Senior year with '68. 
*Pete" died in Newark, N. J., in 1875. He taught for a while 
in Elizabeth, N.J. He was a fine linguist, and was conversant 
with several European languages. He told me that as a 
recreation after studying Spanish, he mastered Portuguese in 
about three weeks. — C. F. R. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. IO9 

JOHN SAMUEL JESSUP. 

Born near Mullica Hill, N. J., in 1842. Fitted at West Jer- 
sey Academy, Bridgeton, N. J. Entered August, 1862. 
Roomed 24 West. Whig. Read law with Hon. F. T. Freling- 
huysen, at Newark, N. J., and Cambridge (Mass.) Law School. 
Admitted to the bar of New Jersey as attorney-at-law, June, 
1868, and as counselor-at-law in 1871. Married November 
2d, 1 87 1. Has six children, four girls and two boys, one of 
whom graduated at Princteon in 1895, I believe. Appointed 
Master and Examiner in Chancery, March 3d, 1874; Supreme 
Court Commissioner, March 27, 1879, and Special Master in 
Chancery in 1883. Has held several local positions of honor 
and trust and for a number of years has been Judge in the 
Gloucester County Courts. Unfortunately Judge Jessup's 
report has failed to reach my desk, but the foregoing data is 
believed to be correct. — C. F. R. 

UPSHUR JOHNSTON. 

Born at Princess Anne, Md., January 7th, 1845. Fitted at 
home. Entered August, 1862. Roomed 21 East. Whig and 
Alpha Delta Phi. Went to Europe in 1867. He engaged in 
banking in Baltimore and died in 1876,1 am advised. — C. F. R. 

WILLIAM Y. JOHNSON. 

Born 1845. Entered August, 1861. Clio. Headquarters 
at 44 North, his home being near Princeton. Read law in 
Trenton. Was in Mercer County Clerk's office for a while and 
practiced law in Trenton for over twenty years, associated 
the most of the time with Attorney-General Stockton. He 
died, I think, in 1896.— C. F. R. 

OSCAR KEEN. 

[Entered Princeton, August 15th, 1861, after fitting at 
John Provost's school in Newark, N. J. Roomed 51 North 



no HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

and 15 West. Clio. Took classical oration at Commence- 
ment. With these preliminary words, his "brief" is sub- 
mitted.— C. F. R.] 

Born March 3d, 1844, he resides in the village of South 
Orange, Essex County, N. J., and practices his profession as 
a lawyer in the city of Newark, N. J. 

After graduating with the class of '65 he studied law; was 
admitted as an attorney-at-law at the June term, 1865, of the 
Supreme Court of New Jersey, and as a counselor-at-law by 
the same Court at its term of June, 187 1. 

He has been actively and successfully engaged in practice 
since his admission to the bar. 

From 1883 to 1888 he was Prosecutor of the Pleas of Essex 
County, the county seat of which is Newark. 

Subsequently he was offered but declined the appointment 
of Judge of the Court of Errors and Appeals of New Jersey, 
preferring the practice of his profession to judicial office. 

He has been married twice. In 1875 he married a daughter 
of Chancellor Williamson of New Jersey, and by her had two 
children, a son, Benjamin Williamson Keen, who is a lawyer in 
Newark, and Mary Hampton Keen, who is the wife of Richard 
Stockton. The mother of his children died in 1880, and in 
1884 he married Elizabeth D. Cooper, by whom he had a 
daughter who is dead. 

He frequently sees some of his classmates — especially those 
living near Newark — and has a warm heart for them all; and 
he hopes that many will be spared to be in Princeton in June, 
191 5, which will be the fiftieth anniversary of the graduation 
of the class of '65, all of the members of which feel proud that 
they received their diplomas when John MacLean was Presi- 
dent of the College of New Jersey. 



SAMUEL PHILIP KELLY. 

["Mose" Kelly's story is unique. There never was one 
told as he tells it. Further particulars can be had in the class 



I 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865 III 

book issued in 1868, 1890, and by addressing him at 501 North 
Sixty-fifth Street, West Philadelphia, Pa.— C. F. R.] 

The oughter-biographoraphy of "Moses." 

Known throughout his classical and cosmopolitan existence, 
among his dearest friends and classmates, as * * Mose, ' ' hut 
to he found in Princeton Catalogues, the Directory of Living 
Graduates, the Blue Book and City Directory of Phila- 
delphia, the Clergy Lists and Records of Living Journalists 
as Samuel Philip Kelly. 

Written at the request of his classmates , at hanquet assembled, 
hut not for puhlication unless he is paid space rates in 
advance. 

' ' Backward, turn backward, O time, in your flight." 

—Old Ballad. 

"The last shall be first and the first last." 

— Story of the Vineyard. 

PREFACE. 

This is always written last and printed first, which few 
people read and fewer understand, and which does not always 
make the author clear. 

"What I says, I stand to. Whereby, why not? If so, what odds? 
Can any man say otherwise ? No. Awast then. ' ' 

— Jack Bunsby, the Philosopher. 

Chapter I. 

(It will not be necessary to number any more, as the rest 
of the chapters all follow in regular and rapid succession.) 

Mose ' ' was a bouncing boy. He has been bouncing ever 
since. At the age of ten his Sunday school teacher called 
him "the india rubber boy." Probably a prophecy, for he 
has lived among Indians and has rubbed up against almost 
everything. 



112 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

Mose first saw the light (electric) in the lower northeast 
corner room of the University Club House, on Nassau Street, 
in the town of Princeton, County of Mercer, State of New 
Jersey, on the evening of Tuesday, the 13th of June, A.D. 
1905. There were present and officiating at the general 
delivery Joe McCammon, as head nurse, and Charlie Rich- 
ardson, as bottle-washer, and a goodly number of educated 
assistants (waiters). The debutante was supported on the 
right by Dr. Logan and on the left by Abert, who assisted 
in bringing him forth. Prof. Soph. Hunt was a dignified 
observer from the other side of the table, with McClellan, J. 
Greene and Calkins as chaplains, Nick English as Judge, Dr. 
Vail as Surgeon-General, Joe Pennington as messenger boy, 
F. Schenck as adjunct professor, F. Greene as ex-Secretary of 
the Borden Condensed Milk Company, and "Lish" Butler as 
General Freight Agent. "Paide" Leggett skipped just before 
the critical moment arrived. ''Coddy" Keen, who was to 
have officiated as counselor, attorney and adviser, became 
indisposed during the afternoon and failed to be present, but 
Mose "got there, all the same." Upon stepping forth from 
the pylochelid of the remains of the Temple of Sixty-five, his 
course was backward, upward and onward. 

His first residence was in Philadelphia, a small hamlet 
about forty miles south of Princeton, in charge of St. Barnabas^ 
Episcopal Church (not St. Barrabas', as has been falsely 
stated), where he spent nine years of his blameless life, ad- 
mired by all who knew him and in debt to none. Happy, 
contented and ' ' cheered but not inebriated, ' ' thus quietly 
he lived on, but not on his friends. During this period of his 
residence in Philadelphia he became a charter member of the 
Princeton Club. 

On the ist of May, 1897, he was married to Miss Hannah 
Rusk, of Ontario, Canada, an artist whom he met in Paris. 
She painted a few years later, in Princeton, the portrait of 
Dr. Francis L. Patton, then President of the University, for 
the Princeton Club of Philadelphia. 

" They lived happily ever afterward." 



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In 1896 he crossed the Atlantic to attend the Sesqui-Cen- 
tennial. When Joe Pennington was recognized by Bill Shelley, 
Joe said: "Why, don't you know me, Bill?" 

Bill replied : " I see nothing in the light and shade of your 
classic physiognomical countenance, nor in your style, noble 
bearing nor dignified appearance which prompts a recognition^ 
but there is something strangely familiar about your breath. 
Why, yes ! It is — it must be Joe ! ' ' 

Also at this gathering of the sons of Old Nassau Frank 
Howell asked Joe McCammon: "Say, does *Mose' Kelly live in. 
Paris, France, and not Paris, Kentucky? ' ' Joe said : * * Oui. ' *" 
' ' And, ' ' continued Frank, * * is he really Rector of an Episcopal 
Church over there, and does he preach ? " " Yes, ' ' responded 
Joe, * 'but he doesn't practice worth a cent. ' ' These were the 
principal events of the Sesqui worthy of note, except the 
bronze medal which cost a five-dollar note. 

On the other side he was in charge for nearly three years 
of S. Luc's, the American students' chapel, 5 Rue de la 
Grande Chaumiere, where the Stars and Stripes floated at every 
service, and resided at 207 Boulevard Raspeil, where the 
American students were royally entertained, and from whence 
American visitors were shown Paris better and in quicker 
time than any French guide could direct them. 

Next he was in Philadelphia for a couple of years, 1894 to 
1892, in charge of the Free Church of S. John, Frankford 
Road, the first Episcopal Church in America to introduce free 
sittings. 

Then in Europe, 1892 and 1891, wintering in Berlin and 
blowing in the cash return value on a twenty-year endowment 
policy of life insurance (cut down to ten years), and winding 
up broke in Paris (but with a return steamer ticket) , where he 
spent a few months as assistant at the Eglise de la S. Trihite, 
Avenue de I'Alma, Champs Elysees, which, being translated 
for the benefit of the French scholars in the class, who were 
taught "a French never spoken in France" by Langlotz, 
means the big American Church with the Mortuary Chapel, 
where rested temporarily the bones of the late Mr. J. P. 
Jones, the Admiral — not J. P. Jones, of Nevada. 
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114 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

We next hear of *' Mose " in 1890, at the twenty-fifth reunion 
of the class, when he reeled off some rhyme on ' ' Where have I 
been and what have I done," etc.* Also, "A Idle of Sixty- 
five," commencing, "This class marks an era in Princeton's 
progression." He was then residing at 140 South Sixth 
Street, Reading, Pa., being General Missionary of the Diocese 
of Central Pennsylvania. From 1887 to 1884 he held a like 
position in the Diocese of Pittsburg, and while there assisted 
in the establishment of the Princeton Alumni Association of 
Western Pennsylvania. From 1884 to 1883 he was doing 
report orial work on the Philadelphia Press and Times. 

From 1883 to 1880 he was engaged in literary work, being 
on the San Francisco Chronicle when Charles De Young was 
shot by young Kalloch, and City Editor of the Oakland 
Evening Tribune. He was a member of the Press Club of San 
Francisco and one of the founders of the Princeton Alumni 
Association of the Pacific Coast, which, beside holding many 
delightful reunions, secured local examinations for Princeton 
for students from the Coast. 

For ten years, from 1880 to 1870, he lived in many and 
visited all the towns in the State of Nevada, established a 
number of new churches, was connected with the Eureka 
Sentinel, Carson Appeal, and Belmont Courier; Deputy 
County Auditor of Nye county ; County School Superintendent 
of Eureka, and for four years State Superintendent of Public 
Instruction. 

From 1870 to 1867 he resided in South Kingstown, Rhode 
Island, and organized and erected the first church of any kind 
at Narragansett Pier. This was a frame structure, and was 
blown over in the terrible September gale of 1 869. The follow- 
ing morning early he stood upon the ruins, and as the people 
came to view the destruction and expressed their sorrow and 

* Been married, and have one daughter left. 

Am now a widower ; 

But there isn't a son of a '65 

Who can pay attention to her. 
Miss Helen DeCou Kelly, concerning whom this was then written, 
is still alive. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. II5 

regret, he pulled out his subscription book and cheerfully- 
asked : * * How sorry are you ? ' ' They were sorry that morn- 
ing over $1,327. That was the beginning of the present 
beautiful imposing stone structure, now known to thousands 
of people all over the country as " S. Peter's-by-the-Sea, ' ' the 
first church ever to bear that name, and old Mose "made it up, 
out of his own head. ' ' 

During this period he was married, May 26th, 1868, in S. 
Michael's Church, Trenton, to Miss Rachel Clark DeCou, of 
that city, who during our college term taught at the little 
schoolhouse in the bend of the road, down at Princeton Basin, 
near the old station on the canal. That's why "Mose " was so 
good an Episcopalian and went up to Dr. Dod's so often, but 
the fellows didn't know anything about it, although some of 
them used to walk all the way down Canal Street to get a look 
at the little school teacher. 

While attending the Philadelphia Divinity School in 1866 
he was a lay reader at Hestonville, where he organized a 
mission and built a stone church, which is now a strong parish 
in one of the most populous residence portions of the city. 
It may be incidentally remarked here that he has been instru- 
mental in or connected with the building of twenty churches, 
and when the new S. Barnabas' is erected he will become of 
age as a contractor, builder, architect and promoter. 

From 1865 to 1862 he resided in Princeton, in West and 
North Colleges, excepting on the two occasions when he 
enlisted in the First New Jersey Volunteers and in the 196th 
Pennsylvania Volunteers, and bared his breast to the shafts of 
the enemy, in defense of his country and his country's flag, to 
protect you in your property and your homes; answering the 
stirring recruiting call, to ' ' Step right up ! Roll up, climb up, 
tumble up ! Any way at all so you get up, sign your articles or 
make your mark, and enroll yourselves beneath the Starry 
Banner, at sixteen dollars a month, board, clothes and inci- 
dentals, free transportation, expenses paid, and do your own 
cooking and washing, with a fine opportunity of seeing the 
country and observing the manners and customs of the people 
you pass through." He went. He same back unscathed in an 



Il6 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

old uniform, and had his blanket made up into a vest and pair 
of trousers which were the admiration and envy of all Wither- 
spoon Street. Sam Baker and a lot of other fellows enlisted 
on the other side, and it has been stated that he went to Fort 
Delaware where " Mose" stood guard over him. This has never 
been verified. If it is true, "tis pity, and pity 'tis 'tis true. ' '' 
' ' They did not speak as they passed by , " any more than they 
did in J. O. campaign and its celebrated watch case. 

Probably the most distinguished service * * Mose ' ' ever ren- 
dered to the College of New Jersey was his activity in the 
establishment and maintenance of that immortal Greek letter 
fraternity, the Alpha Delta Chi, whose widespread influence 
has been sung in the lines of the French poet : 

' ' Over the sea, in brilliant Paree, 

Where her bright fame can never die, 
In ancient Rome and classic Oxford, 
Stands our Alpha Delta Chi. ' ' 

Tomes might be written of incidents * ' part of which he was," 
but let one suffice — the turning down of the late A. M. P. V. 
H. Dickison, of '64. Auxie was running for class Poet. " Mose"^ 
was one of the editors of the Whang Doodle, a Sophomore 
sheet whose business it was to lampoon the Juniors. He 
exploited the candidate's initials thusly : 

Ajax' son, 
Monkey one. 
Poet none, 
Verisopht, 
Hunt him down 
Dickison . — Finis. 

In the same issue appeared a specimen of his alleged poetic 
ability, the rhyme being indicated by the italicized words: 

' ' The intrinsic majesty betokened from the skies 
Awe-stricken gazed. 
Far from beneath yon star-speckled canopy arise 

Just besprinkling golden dawn. 
In the meantime the swallows homeward flies 
And I am left alone. ' ' 

And he was, poor fellow! 



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"Mose" hadn't anything against him, except his name, and 
lie didn't give himself that, and wouldn't, could he have 
prevented it. 

The name "Mose" was first acquired when the boys went 
down to Lawrence ville, in Bill Johnson's hay wagon, to sere- 
nade the girls at Old Man Nassau's school. It was adopted to 
prevent recognition. Somehow or other the name held, as 
did many another in those good old days. « Possibly it clung 
more persistently at the time of the fad of giving names to 
the students' rooms. Joe and Billy lived in the "Divan," 
Jim Stratton at the * ' Ranch, ' ' Fid Dayton in the * * Abbey, * ' 
-and so on. "Mose" called his the "Bulrushes," so that upon 
knocking at the door one could find out if * ' Moses ' ' was in 
the Bulrushes. 

In the summer of 1862, having spent his Freshman year at 
Kenyon, he went up for examination, and after having been 
passed by dear old John, Cam, Duff and the rest of the Faculty, 
was matriculated at the greatest college on earth. 

Thus he rose to the highest pinnacle of scholastic ambition, 
the summit of renown and ' ' the divinest altitude of being. ' ' 

No greater achievement stands to the credit of his chequered 
career. No more exalted honor can be bestowed — and 

' ' Here the history stops. ' ' 



THEODORE AUGUSTUS LEGGETT. 

Born at Hopewell, Orange County, New York, December 
20th, 1845. Fitted at Wallkill Academy, Middletown, N. Y., 
1859-60. Entered September 21st, 1861. Roomed 6 and 3 
North and 24 and 25 East. Clio. Entered Princeton Theo- 
logical Seminary, fall of 1865, and in April, 1868, was elected 
pastor at Cape Island, N. J. Subsequently be became pastor 
of Calvary Presbyterian Church, West New Brighton, Staten 
Island, succeeding J. Greene in the pastorate. This pulpit he 
filled for twenty-two years, when in January, 1904, he asked 
that the pastoral relation be dissolved, which was granted, but 
he was chosen Pastor Emeritus. 



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* ' Paide ' ' was married and had seven children, all grown up, 
four daughters and three sons; but in 1894 his four daughters 
died within a few weeks of scarlet fever. Of his sons, one is in 
business in Wall Street, one a physician and the third gradu- 
ated at Princeton in 1905. 




T. A. LEGGETT 



"Paide" had never been ill until the spring of 1906, and 
had no serious trouble until the death of his daughters. 

For a number of years he has been a D.D. and always a 
student. Between his pastorate at Cape May and on Staten 
Island he was pastor of a church in New York City and at 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. II9 

Chester, N. Y. Paide rested from his labors in November, 
1906.— C. F. R. 



ISAIAH N. LEIGH. 

[Came from Mount Rose, near Princeton. Was with us 
only during Fresh year. Clio. Since leaving college he seems 
to have dropped out of all communication, directly or other- 
wise, with the rest of the class. — C. F. R.] 



WILLIAM H. LOGAN. 

[Born at Dillshurg, York County, Pa., January 21st, 1843. 
Fitted at Tuscarora Academy, November, i860, to August, 
1867, when he entered our class. Roomed 25 West and 16 
East. Whig. " T '" medal in Hall for debate. Editor of Lit, 
December, 1864. Tarried at home until fall of 1867, when he 
entered Princeton Theological Seminary. — C. F. R.] 

Graduated at Princeton Seminary in 1870. Preached in 
Gurley Chapel, Washington, D. C, 1871-74. Pastor of Mil- 
lerstown and Newport, Pa., churches from 1875 to 1886. Was 
Presbyterial Missionary for Carlisle Presbytery from 1886 to 
1889, and Presbyterial Missionary of New Castle Presbytery 
from 1889 to 1 89 1. Pastor of Manokin Church, Princess 
Anne, Md., from 1891 to 1900. From 1900 to 1902 acted as 
Financial Secretary of Wilson College, and since then have 
had charge of the mission work of New Castle Presbytery. 
Have been Moderator of the Presbyteries of Washington 
City, Carlisle and New Castle and the Synod of Baltimore, 
and five times a Commissioner to the General Assembly. 
Have been Chairman of the Home Mission and Sustentation 
Committees of the Presbytery of New Castle and the Synod 
of Baltimore for ten years, and a Trustee of Wilson College 
since 1883. My present address is 700 Van Buren Street, 
Wilmington, Del. 



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In 1 87 1 I was married to Miss Lizzie E. Green, of Carlisle. 
Have three children, two girls and one boy, W. H., Jr., who 
graduated at Princeton in 1895. Both my daughters gradu- 
ated at Wilson College. 




J. K. M GAMMON 



JOSEPH KAY McCAMMON. 



It is difficult to determine exactly what kind of a personal 
sketch is desired for our class history, but at least it is safe 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 121 

to make a brief summary of some of the salient points of my 
career since graduation. I assume that the initial date is that 
of graduation in June, 1865. Shortly after that date was 
taken down with typhoid fever, and because of the violence 
of the attack and slow recovery, I was not able to begin the 
study of law until October, 1866. In the December term, 
1868, was admitted to the bar in my native city of Philadel- 
phia. In 1869 was a candidate for the Legislature in the dis- 
trict in which I was born, and was, probably fortunately, 
defeated, although the returns showed that I made a good run. 
In 1870 was appointed by Chief Justice Chase, with the con- 
currence of Judge Cadwalader, Register in Bankruptcy for 
Philadelphia. In October, 1 871, received an appointment at 
Washington under the Department of Justice as special coun- 
sel for the United States before the Court of Claims, and for 
years had special charge of suits wherein the Pacific and 
other subsidized land grant railways were engaged in litiga- 
tion with the Government before the Court of Claims and 
the Supreme Court of the United States. During this 
period the Court of Claims paid me the rare compliment 
of inserting my name in an opinion, attributing the de- 
feat of the claim to my vigilance. (Davis v. U. S., 10 Ct. 
CI. 286.) In June, 1877, was appointed a member of a Board 
to investigate the conduct of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 
having been designated as the President of the same. For 
seven months the Board thoroughly investigated the Indian 
service, visiting the Western country, and made a report 
w^hich went far to correct many of the abuses that had grown 
up in that unfortunate branch of the public service. In 
April, 1880, I was appointed Assistant Attorney General and 
assigned to the Interior Department, being the legal adviser 
of the Secretary of the Interior in questions arising under the 
land and mining laws and those affecting Government railroads, 
Indians, patents, pensions, etc., etc. President Garfield in 
.1881 detailed me to represent the Government in the 
negotiation of an agreement with the tribes of the Shoshones 
and Bannocks on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation, Idaho* 
for the extinguishment of their title to so much of their 



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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I23 

treaty lands as were required for the construction of the 
Utah and Northern and Oregon Short Line; and since then 
the town of McCammon, situated near the scene of the council, 
has appeared on the map. In 1882, President Arthur gave 
me a similar detail in connection with the Flathead, Pondereille 
and Kootenay Indians in northwestern Montana, in connec- 
tion with the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad. 
The latter service was performed under much difficulty, as 
the younger members of the tribes were riotous and trouble- 
some and not disposed to enter into any agreement with me. 
Because of my persistency in trying to persuade them to 
accede to the purposes of the council, the name of ' * Big 

Chief, or the Man-Who-Talks-Like-H , ' ' was given me by 

the Indians. The episodes of that trip and my worn de guerre 
were made use of in an editorial in the Philadelphia Press. 
On my return to the East, a friend in Philadelphia had a like- 
ness from one of my old photographs painted by an artist as 
an Indian Chief and 'copies were distributed among friends. 

In 1880 the Judges of the Court 0/ Claims, without my know- 
ledge at the time, addressed a letter to President Hayes, 
recommending my appointment as Commissioner of Patents. 

In October, 1881, President Arthur appointed me U. S. 
Commissioner of Railroads, While holding the ofhce and dis- 
charging my duties as Assistant Attorney General. This 
office I held for some months. President Arthur, also, with- 
out my knowledge, expressed his intention of appointing me 
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, 
should a vacancy occur during his Administration. 

In May, 1885, resigned from the United States service, and 
since then have been engaged in the general practice of law. 
Probably it is right to add in this connection that I have met 
with some professional success. 

I have been a vestryman in two Episcopal parishes, and 
warden of one. A new parish was organized at my residence. 

Shortly after leaving college, I joined the artillery corps 
Washington Grays, of Philadelphia, and was identified with 
the National Guard of Pennsylvania until my departure for 
Washington. On the organization of the National Guard of 



124 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

the District of Columbia, I was appointed Judge Advocate 
General. At the inauguration ball of March 4, 1889, I was 
Chairman of the Reception Committee. 

On the incorporation of the Metropolitan Club of Wash- 
ington was elected a life governor, and held the position for 
over twenty-two years before resigning; also serving as vice- 
president and treasurer. Served for some years in the man- 
agement of the Cosmos Club, and finally as president. Have 
been a governor of the Chevy Chase Club for a number of years, 
and also vice-president of that organization. Am also a 
member of the University Club of New York, and the Art and 
Princeton Clubs of Philadelphia, and have been a member of 
the University Clubs of Washington and Philadelphia. 

Have been a director for some years of the Garfield Memorial 
Hospital and am now President, succeeding Justice Harlan. 
During my life in Washington I necessarily have been thrown 
with many public men. 

For nearly two years I have not been in the best of health, 
although at present I consider myself nearly well. 

I often see Abert and Oscar Keen, and it has been my good 
fortune to see in Washington during the passing years Boone, 
on the occasion of one of his visits from China after his appoint- 
ment as bishop; Riggs, Imbrie, Arrowsmith, Reading, Wood- 
bridge, Hunt, Kelly, Raftery, and a few others. 

It was my good fortune to make the motion for the estab- 
lishment of an Alumni Association in Philadelphia in 1868 or 
'69, and perform the same duty for the establishment of the 
Princeton Association at Washington in 1872. For several 
years I was President of the Association here. Was Presi- 
dent for a year of the Princeton National Alumni Association. 

My heart has ever turned with affectionate regard to Prince- 
ton, to my classmates, and the others with whom my asso- 
ciations were intimate for four years at the dear old college 
home. 

Married September 22, 1870, Miss Catharine Ormsby 
McKnight, of Pittsburg, Pa., who died in December, 1898. 
We have had four children, two sons and two daughters. 
One of the former died some years ago. 

My address is Bond Building, Washington, D. C. 



JOSEPH KAY McCAMMON. 

Born October 13, 1845. 
Died January 2, 1907. 

Memorial by William Stone Abert. 

The New Year brings great sorrow to the survivors of the 
Class of 1865 of Princeton University. 

We mourn the loss of our dear friend and classmate, who 
entered into his. eternal rest at eight o'clock on Wednesday 
evening, the second day of January, 1907. 

At his home, near his loved ones, in the perfect enjoyment 
of his faculties, while calmly seated in his chair engaged in 
conversation, with the words of an unfinished sentence upon 
his lips, his head fell back, as in resting, and his great kindly 
heart ceased to beat! There was no bodily pain, he suffered 
no mental anguish, and the vital spark had fled without any 
consciousness of the approaching end. 

Truly he fell asleep with an exceeding peace — 

" Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch 
About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams." 

During the afternoon he had a consultation with one of his 
lawyer friends and for two hours he discussed with animation, 
clearness and force some important legal matters. 

At the close of the meeting, he remarked that he had felt 
unusually well and cheerful during the day, and that he 
experienced no fatigue in consequence of the interview, which 
ended at four o'clock. 

Our deceased classmate possessed a remarkably magnetic 
personality; and as the true and loyal friend, the able and 
learned lawyer, the elegant and courtly gentleman, the charm- 
ing social companion, he attracted to himself hosts of admirers 
and friends. 



^^^ ^ 



His place in the affections of the members of his Class of 1865 
never can be filled; and with feelings of grief and affection as 
many members of the Class as could attend followed him to 
the grave. 

The funeral services were held at Washington, D. C, in St. 
Thomas' Episcopal Church, of which he was a vestryman. 
Members of the various scientific societies and clubs to which 
he belonged attended the services; and the interment was 
made in Oak Hill Cemetery. 

The honorary pallbearers were Justice John M. Harlan, 
Justice A. B. Hagner, Admiral John W. McGowan, Dr. H. C. 
Yarrow, Major General Wallace F. Randolph, James M. 
Johnston, William Stone Abert, Nathaniel Wilson, J. Hubley 
Ashton and Gaillard Hunt. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I25 

[I am going to blue-pencil McCammon's story, so valuable 
to us all, by adding that he was born in Philadelphia, October 
13th, 1845. Fitted at W. Fewsmith's school in Philadelphia. 
Entered our class November, 1861, and roomed 48 and 51 
North and in town. Whig and Phi Kappa Sigma. From 
the start he was a leader among us, anax andron, and we are 
happy in having him as our Class President. Serus in ccelum 
redeas. Never mind where I heard that. It is not a chestnut. 
— C. F. R.] 



WILLIAM E. McCHESNEY. 

[Born at Matawan, N. J., February 13th, 1845. Fitted West 
1860-61. Entered '65 in August, 1862. Roomed 12 North 
and 27 East. Clio. Spent a year after graduating as a 
teacher, and entered Princeton Theological Seminary in 1867. 
He became interested in Foreign Missions, and in i86g was 
ordained by Monmouth Presbytery and appointed as a mis- 
sionary to Canton, China, under the Presbyterian Board of 
Foreign Missions. He was married September 15th, 1869, to 
Miss Susie Conover, and in November set out for his work 
abroad, reaching Canton January 8th, 1870, and was soon 
actively at work. 

In one of his excursions on the Canton River, in his line of 
duty, at midnight, July loth, 1872, he was shot without a 
moment's warning by a rifle ball from a pirate boat. Always 
genial, cheerful and hopeful, he won many friends among the 
missionaries as well as among the Chinese. — C. F. R.] 



CHARLES HENRY McCLELLAN. 

My birthplace was Wheeling, W. Va., and the date thereof 
November 27th, 1843. My father, Samuel McClellan, came 
to this city, from Hartford, Conn., in the early part of 
the nineteenth century. My mother, Eunice Edgerton, was 
a native of Norwich, Conn., being a descendant in direct line 
of Governor Bradford, of Massachusetts. In this connection 
let me state that there is a record of five generations of Edger- 



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tons as clergymen, so that if the law of heredity has as much to 
do with our tastes, habits, etc., as scientific experts would 
have us believe., this may in part account for the choice I 
made of a profession. At the age of fourteen I left home to 




H. M CLELLAN 



attend the Monongahela Academy at Morgantown, W. Va., 
which institution has since become part of the University of 
West Virginia. Remaining there about four years I entered, 
in the fall of 1862, the University of Princeton, class of '65, as 
a Sophomore. You do not know how lonely I felt the first 
day I spent in Princeton. ^^ My nearest acquaintance was more 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I27 

than four hundred miles away, and all I had to give me good 
standing in the community was a letter of introduction from 
my home pastor to dear Dr. John MacLean. I took the letter 
to him (he was at breakfast), and, after reading it, he said: 
*' Have you any friends here?" I told him I had not. "Where 
are you staying? ' ' "At the hotel, ' ' I said. Then he replied, 
and this drew my heart to him: "Go, get your things, and come 
and stay with me. ' ' I declined, though very grateful, and 
this was the auspicious beginning of my happy college life. 

I count it not the least of the many good things of that time 
that, on my first entrance into the classroom, I had my seat 
beside MacMartin. His classmates all knew him well, for 
he was as little exclusive as forward in his intercourse with us ; 
but no one knew him better than I did, both in college and in 
after years. And.no one has greater cause for gratitude than 
have I for such knowledge. Whatever I may have done — if 
anything — for him, I know he did great things for me; and I 
wish here to offer this tribute to his pure, strong character, 
and to tell how he helped me to whatever success in work, 
or sincerity in purpose, or directness in life may have since then 
been mine. He was not conscious of this influence. He was 
modest in his self-estimate ; but the results of it were very 
plain in many lives. There is one incident in college life which 
I think ought to go on record as illustrating the methods and 
power of one of our instructors — Dr. Joshua L. Mcllvaine. I 
was the unworthy one of four selected as Junior Orators from 
Whig Hall — the others being Abert, Sloss and Baker. The rule 
was that such Orators (please spell it with a capital O) were 
to take their speeches, some weeks previous to Commencement, 
to Dr. Mcllvaine for his criticism. Not that mine needed any 
correction or elimination or anything of that sort. Far from 
it. It was of course a masterpiece — a very jewel of a speech, 
in my eyes at least. But, just to conform to the rule, and per- 
haps because I could not do otherwise, I took it to him. I 
went boldly enough up the steps to his study, in the house he 
occupied just back of the President's; presented myself, told 
my errand and awaited results. **Sit down, Mr. McClellan, 
and read your speech to me, ' ' said the Doctor. So I read it — 



128 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

about four pages of foolscap (rightly named). When I had 
finished he said: "Read the first sentence over." I read it- 
It was a beauty, I tell you. Rainbows and tinted clouds and 
bespangled butterflies in the glow of a summer's sun were as 
nothing in comparison. But when I had finished he broke 
out in that singular deep-toned voice of his : " What do you 
mean by it ? " Ah, there he had me. It was a lovely sentence,, 
but what did I mean by it? After some moments of painful 
struggling with my gray brain matter, I managed to stammer 
out what meaning I intended it to convey. Then came his 
one sharp, quick comment: "Why don't you say so then?" 
And so, sentence by sentence, he took me through the weary 
journey of those four pages with, literally, no other words of 
criticism or instruction than * ' What do you mean by it ? " 
and "Why don't you say so?" But they were enough, not 
only for that one time, but for all the compositions of the 
many years since. I thank him heartily for that hour. It 
was a whole course of rhetoric in itself; for whenever after- 
wards tempted to soar into fancy writing at the expense of 
clearness, or to disguise poverty of thought with a wealth of 
beautiful language, I could hear those words — rough and kind 
at once — and was admonished, and repented. 

After graduation from college, I took the three years' course 
in the Princeton Theological Seminary, graduating from it in 
the class of '68. I was licensed to preach by the Presbytery of 
New Brunswick, April i8th, 1867. What an examination that 
was! I will never forget it, and I am certain that the two 
benches full of young men examined with me will never forget 
it. It lasted two days, and covered almost everything in the 
Heavens above and the earth beneath and the waters under the 
earth. It dealt with time and eternity, church history, 
theology, the eclipse of the moon, the baptism of infants, 
heresies, denominational differences and other kindred sub- 
jects, and left us pumped out and fit subjects for an institution 
for the feeble-minded. Of course it was all right, but it taught 
me one thing at least — to be merciful to young theologues; 
so that in after years when, by the Presbytery of Monmouth, 
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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I29 

Ministry, the thought of those days of torture made me more 
kindly disposed toward young theological students, better 
fitted to be their Guide, Philosopher and Friend, and also not 
to expect from them, at the beginning of their career, the full 
knowledge of all the spheres and times. I was ordained to 
the ministry by the Presbytery of West Virginia at New- 
burgh, W. Va., October 14th, 1868. Served the churches of 
Point Pleasant, W. Va., and Gallipolis, Ohio, as stated supply 
from October, 1868, until May, 1869, and then went to Europe, 
August 4th of same year, with MacMartin, remaining abroad 
until November, 1870. 

I was pastor of the church at Barnesville, O., from May i8th 
to December nth, 187 1. Receiving a call from the Presby- 
terian Church at Butler, Pa., on October 7th, 187 1, 1 went there 
in December, took charge of the church and was installed 
January 23d, 1872. It was a large church and perhaps three- 
fourths of its membership were Scotch. Scotchmen are good 
churchmen — intelligent, generous, critical, well informed in all 
religious matters — but not much given to praise when work is 
well done. They just take it for granted that work ought to 
be well done by their dominie. And so in all the years I served 
them I had never a word of commendation from any man of 
them, except that one day a grizzly eyebrowed Elder said : ' ' Mr. 
McClellan, the sermon you preached to-day was none so bad. 
At ony rate, it was better than the one you gave us last Sab- 
bath. ' ' You see, they just took it for granted that I would 
do my best — and they were satisfied with that. When I 
broke down from overwork and severe illness, why then their 
love and appreciation appeared in a most substantial form. 
It was a large church and the work correspondingly large. I 
had the- advantage, however, of my experience in missionary 
work elsewhere, and also the large advantage that came from 
travel and study abroad. So I did the best I could, and trust 
my labors were not in vain. 

On June i8th, 1874, I married Miss Malleville Wheelock 
Smith, daughter of Prof. H. B. Smith, of Union Theological 
Seminary, New York, and on December nth, 1875, our only 
child, Ma:ry Malleville, was born to us. This daughter, I 



130 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

will state in passing, was married on April 9th, 1901, to Dr. F. 
H. Howard, Professor in Williams College, Massachusetts, and 
practising physician in that town. They have two boys, so that 
I am a grandfather indeed, and, speaking without prejudice 
and entirely impartially, those boys are the finest specimens — 
but "there are others, " do I hear you say? 

Released from the Butler Church on account of ill health, 
June 25th, 1878, 1 spent the time as best I could in New York, 
California and Colorado in search of new strength, coming 
finally to Lakewood, N. J., where we still reside. I took 
(Charge of the church here in October, 1888; was installed May 
28th, 1889, and remained its pastor until obliged by ill health 
to give up the charge, April loth, 1900. I am now getting back 
into fairly good physical condition, and hope to be able soon 
to do more work still, in a missionary sort of way, among the 
churches of this region. 

Now how do things balance themselves in my life? Well, 
there has been much sickness, it is true, and much labor, but it 
has been a happy life. If there has been sickness there has 
been also the joy of returning health, and the experiences 
which only physical weakness can bring. If there has been 
hard work, is it not true that right labor is a blessing, and that 
it gives its greatest blessing to him who does it? "We 
possess only what we give away, ' ' it has been said; and this is 
so when the giving is not only out of the purse, but out of 
ourselves: the gift of our sympathies, advice, self-sacrifice. 
Every thoughtful man must acknowledge, as he grows older 
and reviews his life, that what gives him most pleasure in the 
retrospect is not what he has gathered to himself of good, but 
what he has been able to do for the other man. No one has 
been more blessed in home and family than have I ; but this is 
too sacred a subject to write upon. 

I enjoyed the class meeting last June intensely and regretted 
only that so many were absent. There is also a regret that I 
see so little of my classmates at other times. But as Lake- 
wood is now a great resort, why cannot you boys of '65 some- 
times drop in on me here? The latch-string of our home is 
always out for you, and a hearty welcome awaits you from 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I3I 

him who counts it not the least joy in his life to have been 
numbered with you on the roll of '65 in Princeton. 

[I find "Mac" has, in his modesty, omitted a few items of 
interest to us all that should be recorded. He roomed 33 
North, 8 East and in town. Whig and first President of 
Nassau Hall Bible Society as reorganized. Was J. O. Took 
*' first" in first half of Soph year and a Hall medal for original 
speaking. In 1894 the New York University gave him his 
D.D. degree — a most excellent decision. — C. F. R.] 



FLAVEL McGEE. 

Born in 1844, and fitted at Blairstown (N. J.) Academy. 
Entered August, 1863. Roomed in second entry of East Col- 
lege. Clio. Won first Hall debate medal. Left before final 
examination to teach in Belvidere, N. J., and study law. 
After finishing his studies, was admitted to the bar as attorney 
in June, 1868. In November, 1868, opened a law office in 
Jersey City, continuing the practice of law there up to the time 
of his death from acute gastritis in August, 1901. 

Flavel was an endless worker, too much so for his health, and 
was one of the really distinguished and able lawyers of the 
New Jersey bar. Many of the most important litigations on 
the calendar for the twenty years before his death have been 
guided by him. He was particularly at home in corporation 
and public law. His retainer by the Lackawanna Railroad as 
its counsel was one recognition of his skill as a corporation 
lawyer. He was the adviser, also, in many great State con- 
troversies. 

Several times was he on the point of being seated on the 
bench of the State Supreme Court. Twice between 1895 and 
1 90 1 was an Associate Justiceship placed at his disposal. 

He was married twice. His first wife was Miss Harris, of 
Belvidere, who died in 1872, leaving one son, Francis Harris 
McGee. In 1875 he married Miss Julia F. Randolph, of Jersey 
City, who survives him with six children. 



132 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

In 187 1 he was admitted as counselor-at-law, and subse- 
quently to practice in the United States District and Circuit 
Courts in New Jersey and in the Supreme Court of the United 
States. 

He was at first a member of the firm of Muirhead & McGee. 
Subsequently the firm was changed to Bedle, Muirhead & 
McGee, when the late Governor Bedle was added to the firm. 
On the death of Mr. Muirhead in 1892 the firm became Bedle, 
McGee & Bedle, and on the death of former Governor Bedle 
the firm became McGee, Bedle & Bedle, the sons succeeding the 
father. On the death of Justice Bradley, Flavel was put 
forward by the bar of New Jersey for the position of Justice 
of the Supreme Court of the United States; and upon the 
death of Chief Justice Beasley , his name was urged for the posi- 
tion of Chief Justice of New Jersey. Always an ardent Repub- 
lican, he took an active part in politics and was frequently 
heard on the stump and in the higher conventions. Almost 
every important office in Hudson County, where he resided, 
was tendered him by the party, but all declined. He was a 
member of a large number of clubs and associations of the 
highest character and a delegate to the convention which 
nominated the late President McKinley. 

Always a strong Presbyterian, he was for a number of years 
an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Jersey City. In 
the purely business world, he was a director in many corpora- 
tions and interested in numerous financial, commercial and 
manufacturing enterprises. 



ARCHIBALD McINTYRE MacMARTIN. 

["Mac*' roomed 22 North and in town. Was a Clio. Took 
"first" twice in Fresh year and first quarter of Junior. — C.F.R.] 

Archibald Maclntyre MacMartin was born in Jersey City, 
February 19th, 1845. While yet a child his family removed 
to 168 Fifth Avenue, New York, which was his home through 
the rest of his life. His earlier education was at Mr. Green- 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I33 

ough's school in New York; then at the Grammar School in 
Twentieth street, and afterwards at Phillips Academy, Andover, 
Mass., 1860-61 , when he entered the University of Princeton as 
Freshman of the class of '65. He graduated with high rank 
with his class in 1865, and in the fall of the same year entered 
the School of Mines, Columbia College, New York, graduating 
at the end of three years with the degree of Engineer of 
Mines. After this he made two trips to Europe (sailing the 
first time August 4th, 1869) for purposes of study and travel, 
remaining there several years, and then came home to put into 
service what all this education and experience had taught him. 
What had it taught him ? And how did he use it in the brief 
ten years of life which still remained to him? Well, when we 
think of the mill he built at Providence, R. I., to which he 
gave so much time and study and money, it is not so much the 
money made or lost there, the experiments successful or other- 
wise that we remember, as the men he gathered about him, 
whom he cheered,- taught, supported, uplifted, and whom, 
when his work in that city ended, he sent out equipped for 
larger work elsewhere. What was the result of all those years 
spent in collecting valuable mineralogical specimens in Europe 
and this country? Not merely the gratifying of his own fine 
taste; but the enriching of his beloved college, and that col- 
lection testifies to-day in Nassau Hall to his wisdom in gather- 
ing it, as to his generosity in giving it. What was the fruit of 
all his Bible study and love of truth? MacMartin was a 
preacher, if ever there was one. Not ordained of the Church 
indeed, but one upon whose head God's benediction had rested, 
sending him forth. The old New York Tabernacle Church 
had a mighty preacher in Dr. William M. Taylor; but his 
words reached only his congregation. MacMartin reported 
those sermons for years, not perfunctorily, but with a loving, 
sympathetic pen ; published them in the New York papers, and 
so gave to thousands the words of righteousness. Yet his 
power for enforcing truth was, after all, in his personal con- 
tact with men. It was almost inexplicable how he could so 
easily win the confidence of all classes, and command respect 
not only for himself but for his religious opinions. The most 



134 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

careless listened to him attentively. Artists, reporters, 
musicians grouped themselves about him as a recognized 
leader. They listened without contradiction, hearing what 
seldom they had ever heard beforehand who can tell what far- 
reaching influences for good such preaching had in the lives 
he touched closely for years. The class book of 1890 tells of 
one instance of this work, in a young man he brought to this 
country from Germany, educated, supported and put into the 
ministry. This was fine generosity; but that narrative does 
not tell of the work first done by his character and words 
through many months on that young man to bring him to 
decide for a higher work in life. 

A many-sided man was MacMartin and strong on all sides. 
He was not only a lover of good music, but distinguished him- 
self as a critic of it. We quote from the New York World of 
May 8th, i88i: "Mr. MacMartin, though still a young man, 
had earned an honorable reputation in journalistic and artistic 
circles by his accomplishments, his tastes and his practical 
devotion to the interest of learning and the arts. He was 
particularly fond of music, and few amateurs in this city were 
so familiar with the principles and scientific relations of the 
art as he. The readers of the World are indebted to Mr. Mac- 
Martin for many thoughtful and admirable papers, both 
critical and expository, on the most interesting musical events 
of the last few years in this city. About a year ago he founded 
and took charge of a special musical journal. The Musical 
Review, in the hope of making it an organ, not of the musical 
trade, but of the science and the art of music in New York. ' ' 

How well we remember MacMartin! How worthy he was 
of remembrance! Talented, kindly of speech, generous, 
humor-loving, slow to take offense, ready to help, practical 
in methods of help, unselfish, warm-hearted, charitable to- 
wards others' views, firm in maintaining his own principles, 
we were proud to have him as classmate; and his memory, 
undimmed by years, is not to-day the least honor of the class 
of '65. 

He died May 7, 1881, at his home in New York, after a 
brief illness from peritonitis. — C. H. McC. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865 135 



CLAUDIUS BUCHANAN McKINSTRY. ■ 

Born December 23d, 1843. Fitted with a private tutor. 

Entered February 20th, 1863. Roomed 4 North and 5 East. 

Whig and Phi Kappa Sigma. At last accounts was living in 
Mercersburg, Pa. — C. F. R. 



J. McKINSTRY. 

Also from Mercersburg, Pa. Born 1843. Member of class 
during last half of Sophomore year. Roomed 4 North. Whig. 
Cannot obtain any further account. — C.F. R. 



ISAAC BUSBY MULFORD. 

Born at Millville, N. J., January 8th, 1843. Fitted at West 
Jersey Academy and Monticello, N. Y., in 1859 and i860. 
Entered August, 1861. Roomed 21 West. Whig. Became 
a physician and married December 4th, 1866. He settled in 
Camden, N. J., and built up a good practice, but died in 1884 
after a very brief illness. — C. F. R. 



HENRY SLEGEL MYERS. 

[Born at New Oxford, Pa., August, 1842. Fitted at Gettys- 
burg, and entered September, 1861. Roomed 28 North, 10 
East and in town. Clio. Farmed awhile and became a manu- 
facturer of agricultural machinery in York, Pa. We all know 
* 'Amos" had lots of energy, and in his quiet, modest way he 
tells his story as follows. — C. F. R.] 

It is not modesty that prevents me contributing an auto- 
biography, but the consciousness that I have accomplished so 
little during the forty years since we went out from our Alma 
Mater that is worthy of record among the histories of giants. 
My life out in the "wide, wide world" has been marked by 



136 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

no great achievements, no great battles fought and won; but, 
like Israel's forty years of wilderness life, much of it on a dead 
level, with an occasional Elim with its wells and palm trees, 
and the hope of a Pisgah at the end. My oldest son gradu- 
ated at Princeton in the class of '04, and my youngest is pre- 
paring to enter a few years hence. Like most fathers, I believe 
they will bring great honor to Old Princeton. In the summer 
of 1869 I met Moody at the International Y. M. C. A. Conven- 
tion held at Portland, and a few months later Ira D. Sankey 
at our State Y. M. C. A. Convention, and was led by their 
stirring addresses to undertake Christian work among the 
neglected in our city. Under the blessing of God this work 
resulted in the organization of a Sabbath-school and the 
Third Presbyterian Church of York. Prof. Carner, of the 
class of '68, and I were chosen elders at the organization of the 
church. I have taken a deep interest in the growth of West- 
minster Presbyterian Church and Sabbath-school, and have 
had comfort in the thought that two very efficient home mis- 
sionaries of our Church laboring in South Dakota were from 
our Mission Sunday-school. It was a pleasure to meet, when 
a Commissioner to the General Assembly at St. Louis in 1900, 
our classmate Carrington, missionary in Siam, and his wife. 
They had returned for a brief visit and to have published the 
Bible in Siamese, into which he had translated the entire 
Scriptures. It was very interesting to examine the first 
bound copy, that was the result of so many years of study and 
work. I am sure a record of this great work should be made 
in our history. Finally, brethren, when the roll shall be 
called at the next reunion of '65, ten years hence, may a kind 
Providence permit a goodly number of us to answer ' ' Here ! ' ' 

Fraternally, 

H. S. Myers. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON NEAL. 

Born in New York City, July 9th, 1846. Fitted at Jamaica, 
L. I., 1859-61. Entered August, 1861. Roomed 43 and 51 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 137 

North. Clio. Spent two years in the New York Independent 
office and entered Princeton Theological Seminary, September, 
1867. Said to have preached for a little while, and reported to 
have died in 1868, comparatively friendless, in a city hospital 
on Ward's Island. On some accounts he was the most 
mysterious member of the class, as he was the smallest 
physically.— C. F. R. 



JOSEPH POPE PENNINGTON. 

1865-67, School of Mines, Columbia College, New York; 

1868, Tutor in mathematics. College of New Jersey, Princeton; 

1869, Instructor in mathematics, Lehigh University, South 
Bethlehem, Pa.; 1870-73, Mutual Life Insurance Company 
of New York; 1876-78, Assistant Actuary and Secretary, 
Provident Savings Life Assurance Society of New York; 
1878-81, Actuary, 'Insurance Department, Columbus, Ohio; 
1881-82, railway construction in Georgia; 1883-84, engineer- 
ing silver mine. Tombstone, Ariz.; 1885 and ff., railway con- 
struction in Michigan, Kansas and Kentucky, with head- 
quarters in New York. 

* * * * 

It is not possible to make an interesting narrative of the 
vicissitudes of a life which has had little to distinguish it from 
the common lot. I add to the above brief summary a few 
notes, in recognition of the friendly interest of classmates. 

* * * * 

My employment as instructor was a means of utilizing time 
while my purposes were maturing. I finally made choice of 
the mathematical department of life insurance, a subject in 
which I had become greatly interested; and in making a con- 
nection with the old * ' Mutual ' ' of New York, I conceived that 
I had entered upon my life's work. My separation from that 
company was consequent on the resignation of my actuarial 
chief, and I subsequently joined him in the organization of 
the Provident Savings Life Assurance Society, now a prosper- 



138 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

ous institution. Some years later, an opportunity was af- 
forded and accepted of occupying an influential post in the 
Insurance Department of the State of Ohio, where I was able 
to wage warfare against the wild-cat industry. 

The last step was perhaps the most critical of my middle life. 
Political influences wrought changes wherein my surroundings 
became unsatisfactory, and I became assured that I could no 
longer retain a controlling influence. With little deliberation, 
I determined wholly to abandon the work which had thus far 
absorbed my interest; and I joined the engineering corps of a 
strong organization which had been for many years active in 
developing the railroads of the middle West. The change 
necessarily involved a new 3tart — not at the top of the lad- 
der. This employment carried me first into Georgia, where I 
lived as an alien, and afterwards our interests developed in the 
Western States. Notwithstanding the sudden change of pro- 
fession, the results have been such that I have had no quarrel 
with fortune until, in 1893, a disastrous and inexcusable failure 
in the financial department left me "in the air," without, 
however, entailing any very serious personal losses. My 
engagement as a silver miner was only an episode, filling the 
time of a lull in railway enterprise, and added many interesting 
adventures to a life which, as a whole, has been more eventful, 
and I believe more entertaining, than is the case when one's 
activities are confined throughout life to a single office. 

Some years have passed since I have been engaged in active 
business, and in looking back over the interval, I do not see 
that I could have made a more satisfactory disposal of my 
time than by renewing, as I have done, my acquaintance with 
the studies and the literary and musical surroundings of 
earlier days. Moreover, the progress of engineering work in 
and about this and other cities is a subject of unfailing inter- 
est, even to one who follows it with only a student's attention. 

Although I have lived a bachelor, fortune has favored me 
in the intimate association and companionship of my own 
family connections, including a generation of nephews and 
nieces who inherit my love for Princeton and share in all my 
life's concerns. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 139 

Among the pleasant recollections of my life, I cherish the 
remembrance of exchanges of hospitality with many college 
friends — some residing at a distance — and with nearly all the 
men of '65 who have from time to time lived in the neighbor- 
hood of New York, including of course some valued friends 
who have passed from our life-roll. I have counted twenty- 
seven classmates who have thus associated with my post- 
collegiate days; and while to name them would be invidious, 
I trust that those who survive retain somewhat of the warmth 
which their names awaken in my own memory. The open 
door will be found at 80 Washington Square, East. 

[Pennington was born January 9th, 1846, in New York 
City. Fitted at Jamaica, L. L, 1859-61. Entered August, 
1 86 1. Roomed 31 East and in town. Clio. Physical oration 
at Commencement. 

In August, 1906, I was fortunate in finding "Joe" in his 
quarters at 80 Washington Square, East. The room was 
picturesque and fitted up as an ideal student's room, a semi- 
cloister hard by the busy city traffic. — C. F. R.] 



NATHAN D. PETTY. 

Nathan D. Petty, of Riverhead, ex-Surrogate of Suffolk 
County, ex-District Attorney, ex-member of the Assembly, 
and orue -of the leading members of the county bar, was bom 
at Good Ground, Long Island, January 6th, 1842. He is 
descended on both sides from old Suffolk County families of 
original English antecedents. His parents were Charles and 
Harriet (Dickerson) Petty, the former having been born at 
Moriches and the latter at Red Creek, Long Island. Nathan 
D. is their only surviving child. A farmer's son, he received 
his early education in the district school of his neighborhood, 
subsequently attending select schools at Cutchogue and River- 
head, Long Island; the Sanborton Bridge (now Tilton) 
Seminary in New Hampshire; the Fort Edward (N. Y.) 
Institute, and Eastman's Commercial College at Poughkeepsie, 



140 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

New York. In 1861 he entered Princeton College, and in 
1865 he was graduated from that institution with high honors 
and the degree of Bachelor of Arts. Three years subsequently 
he received from his Alma Mater the degree of Master of Arts. 




N. D. PETTY 



After leaving college he pursued professional studies at the 
Albany Law School, where he was graduated in 1866, receiv- 
ing the Bachelor of Laws degree. Soon afterwards he began 
the practice of law at Good Ground, his native place, but in 
1868 removed to Riverhead, where he has since resided. 
From an early period of his professional career he enjoyed a 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 141 

successful practice, and soon attained a recognized position as 
one of the prominent and representative lawyers of Suffolk 
County. 

During the Presidential campaign of 1864, while a student 
at Princeton College, Mr, Petty, by permission of the Faculty, 
made political speeches in New York and New Jersey in 
advocacy of the election of Abraham Lincoln. The interest 
in public affairs thus manifested at an early age has always 
been continued, and for more than thirty years he has been 
one of the leading men of the Republican party in Suffolk 
County. He served for twelve consecutive years as Chair- 
man of the Republican County Committee. In 1869 he was 
appointed by President Grant Assistant Assessor of Internal 
Revenue for Suffolk County, an ofhce in which he continued 
until its abolition (1873). 

During the latter year he was nominated for member of the 
Assembly from Suffolk County, and was elected by the largest 
majority ever given a candidate in the county in proportion 
to the number of votes polled. He was re-elected in 1874', 
although the county went strongly Democratic. In 1878, 
and again in 1 881, he was elected District Attorney of Suffolk 
County. He was elected Judge of the Surrogate Court in 
1 89 1 and re-elected in 1897. In this honorable position he 
made a record of most faithful and valuable service. 

Judge Petty married, June 29, 1865, Cornelia, daughter of 
William Raiman, of Newtown, Long Island. They have three 
sons, Charles W., Nathan O., and Raiman. 

[Petty was one of the original Freshman class, entering in 
August, 1 86 1. Roomed 16 North. Clio. His report is 
prepared from the history of Long Island, and speaks much 
for the energy and fidelity of our classmate. — C. F. R.] 



THOMAS RAFTERY. 

Born on the Isle of Achill, Irleand. Became a sailor and 
after shipwreck came to New York City, where, finding friends 
in a strange land, he went to Phillips Academy, Andover, 



142 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

Mass., 1859-61, graduating in the same class there with 
MacMartin and your Historian. Entered Princeton, August, 
1 86 1. Roomed 22 North with MacMartin and 3 West. CUo. 
Elected class Poet, but resigned. Was appointed to a position 
in the Treasury Department, Washington, D. C, in June, 




THOMAS RAFTERY 

1865. While there studied law and familiarized himself with 
French, German and Spanish. Afterwards he became in- 
structor of languages in Kingston (N. Y.) Academy for several 
years, finally becoming Principal. From there he went to 
another academy in Kingston, where he was Principal for 
three years, when he moved to New York City and was 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 143 

elected to the Chair of German and English Literature in the 
Jersey City High School, where he stayed until 1886, when he 
went to the Pacific Coast to practice law. Finding law prac- 
tice dull, he was appointed Professor of Languages in Wash- 
ington University, Seattle. The real estate fever seized him 
and he went to Southern California in the time of a great 
boom. But he held on too long and came East again to 
practice law in New York City. From there he became 
restless again and taught in various places, but finally gave up 
and came back to New York broken in health and passed 
away. 

Tom made several valuable inventions in coast defense and 
in life-saving apparatus which cost him much money, but 
failed to realize on them. Butler has told so many interesting 
facts in Tom's life that I must not prolong my sketch. 

One incident has never been recorded. It was a stormy 
night and the snow was falling fast and deep. MacMartin, his 
chum, was taken ill with a severe sore throat resembling 
diphtheria. To help him, Tom turned out at one o'clock and 
plunged through the storm to Dr. Schenck's and rang the bell. 

The Doctor called to him from his window to find out the 
trouble. 

"If you please, Doctor, would you come to 22 North? My 
chum, MacMartin, is very sick. I don't know just what is 
the matter, but I believe it is some kind of a petrified sore 
throat ! ' ' But the Doctor came, and his prompt action saved 
MacMartin from a very serious illness. — C. F. R. 

JAMES H. RAMSEY. 

Came to us from Peach Bottom, Pa. Was with us only 
during Sophomore year. Roomed 3 North. Clio. Further 
information unattainable. — C. F. R. 



EDWARD P. RANKIN. 

Born January 22d, 1845, at Futtegurh, India, the son of 
missionary parents. On account of the father's impaired 



144 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865.] 

health the family returned to this country in 1848. In 185 1 
the father took charge of a church at Basking Ridge, N. J., 
about thirty miles north of Princeton, and this subsequently 
was the family home. Here in an academy our classmate 
was prepared for college, and entered the class of '65 as a 
Sophomore. In college he was a member of Whig Hall. He 
was elected class Orator and shared the honors of Class Day 
with Imbrie, who was Poet. Rankin graduated fifth in the 
class. He was a member of the B. B. C, and played in most 
of the games in New York and Philadelphia and against Yale 
and Harvard. He was Captain of the University nine in 
1865 and 1866. 

At the close of the college course he entered Princeton 
Theological Seminary and graduated with his class in 1868. 
The previous year, however, he had accepted a position in the 
college as tutor of Greek. This position he held for two years, 
resigning it for teaching work in Carroll College Academy at 
Waukesha, Wis. 

A year later he returned to Princeton for post-graduate work 
in the seminary, and did some private tutoring. In the spring 
of 1872 he began his ministerial work proper at Morrison ville, 
111., a new prairie settlement, where he became the first pastor 
of a newly organized church. In November of that year he 
was ordained by the Presbytery of Mattoon and installed 
pastor of the Morrison ville Church. " Rank " always was fond 
of outdoor sports and hunting; and as the prairie abounded 
with chicken and quail, and with wild geese, ducks and snipe 
in their season, he only had to go afield to get all the recrea- 
tion needed in the midst of life's more serious affairs. His 
famous dag "Sanch," the gift of Mr. Samuel Stockton, of 
Princeton, made these times the perfection of hunting experi- 
ences. When he took the church it had fifteen members, 
with a debt of $2,500. He was pastor for thirteen years and 
left it out of debt, with good church building and parsonage 
and with 150 members; and this without receiving help from 
Home Missions. 

In 1877, September i8th, he was married to Miss Bettie D. 
Scales, at Basking Ridge, N. J., his father, assisted by our 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 145 

classmate McClellan, performing the ceremony. Miss Scales 
had been previously a step-sister by the father's second mar- 
riage. 

In 1884 he resigned his charge at Morrisonville, and again 
taught a year at Carroll College, Wisconsin. The later history 
may be briefly told. He held pastorates successively at Tuscola, 
111. ; StevensPoint, Wis. ; Toledo and Greenup, 111., and Shawano, 
Wis. From the latter place in 1900 he accepted a call to 
return to the church of his first love and labors at Morrison- 
ville, 111., where he still resides, aged sixty. In many respects 
it was like getting back home, sheltered by the roof of the 
house of his own building, under the shade of trees of his own 
planting, with many of the friends of his early ministry still 
living to give him a welcome. His family consists of a 
daughter, married to Mr. Charles Whitnall, of Basking Ridge, 
N. J., whose business is in New York City ; a son in the draught- 
ing department of a large structural steel company in Pitts- 
burg, Pa. ; a daughter in the Junior class, Wisconsin Univer- 
sity ; a son at Park College, Missouri, and two younger daughters 
at home. From his prairie home he bids Godspeed to the 
fellows of '65, and a heavenly home run. 

[Rankin was a Whig and roomed in town. Was class Ora- 
tor and received the third Philosophical oratibn at Commence- 
ment.— C. F. R.] 



ROBERT CHARLTON READING. 

Entered Freshman from Flemington, N. J., and left in 
Junior year. Roomed 50 North. Clio. 

He was at one of our reunions — in 1895, I think. Under- 
stood to be in the gaslight business in Williamsport, Pa., but 
can get no reply from him. A few years ago I met a man 
from Williamsport, who said Reading was one of the leading 
men there. — C. F. R. 



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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865, 




S. W. REEVES 



SAMUEL WINCHESTER REEVES. 



Born in West Cape May, New Jersey, October ist, 1839. 
Fitted at private schools and West Jersey Academy. Entered 
Princeton Junior in 1863. Roomed 2 West. Whig. After 
graduation read law in E. Spencer Miller's office, Philadelphia, 
and was admitted to the Philadelphia Bar in 1867, and con- 
tinued in Mr. Miller's office as assistant till 1870, when he formed 
a partnership with J. Howard Gendell, succeeding to Mr. 
Miller's business after his death. Reeves had a broad knowl- 
edge of the various branches of jurisprudence, but made a 
specialty of civil law, mainly in relation to real estate. 

For thirty years he was Secretary of the Board of Trustees 
of the Tabernacle Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia, an 
Elder for twenty years and for a long time Superintendent of 
the Sunday-school. 

In 1872 he was married, and died May ist, 1904, leaving a 
widow and two married daughters. An indefatigable worker, 
a man of the highest integrity and sound judgment, he was 
naturally very successful in his profession. — C. F. R. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I47 

CHARLES FREEMAN RICHARDSON. 

Born at Fryeburg, Me., November 14th, 1844. Moved to 
Freehold, N. J., April, 1845, where he resided until February, 
1867, to April, 1870, returning there in 1870 to December, 
1883, and since May, 1884, in Beverly, N. J. Fitted at Free- 
hold Institute and Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass., where 
he graduated in 1861. Entered Princeton October 15th, 
1 86 1. Roomed 12 East. Clio. Elected class Historian in 
October, 1864, and re-elected in June, 1905. Was called 
" 98 " from his first grade in mathematics in Fresh year, 
and is " 98 " to his classmates yet, he is glad to say^ Taught 
at home in his father's seminary for young ladies from gradu- 
ation to June, 1866. Helped establish the Long Branch News 
in June, 1866, and from July till the middle of September 
as clerk in the Mansion House, Long Branch. In Phila- 
delphia, from October, 1866, to April 20th, 1870. Was 
appointed principal male instructor in the Pennsylvania 
Institution for the Blind, then at Twentieth and Race Streets, 
February 6th, 1867, which position he held until his marriage 
and removal to Freehold in April, 1870, where he taught until 
the death of his father in 1881 and the settlement of his 
estate in 1883, when the seminary passed into other hands. 

In December, 1883, was appointed to a clerkship in the 
Pennsylvania Railroad Freight Office, at No. 8 Walnut Street, 
Philadelphia, which position he still holds at present writing; 
moving his family to Beverly in May, 1884. 

As a relaxation from office work, in a measure, he has been 
co-operative Observer for the U. S. Weather Bureau since 
July, 1885. For over twelve years he was Inspector for the 
local Board of Health. 

Since 1886 he has taught an evening course of bookkeeping 
during the winter for the New Century Guild, with the satis- 
faction of helping a number of young women to advancement 
in a business life. 

He is glad to feel that he has been of use in keeping the mem- 
bers of '65 in touch with each other, and not many have 
drifted away from his knowledge of their location, at least. 



148 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 




EDWARD RIGGS 



EDWARD RIGGS. 



["Grumby" is entitled to all the space he occupies, and. more 
too, so full of interest is his story. No one loves '65 more than 
he, and of his record we all may be justly proud. May he 
be permitted to cross the Atlantic many times again. The 
books issued in '68 and '90 do much in supplementing his 
report.— C. F. R.] 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I49 

Marsovan, Turkey, November lo, 1905. 

To THE Surviving (45?) Members of the 

Glorious Old Class of '65 at dear Old Nassau. 

Beloved Classmates: — Through the kind thoughtfulness 
of our faithful class Secretary, I have received an account of 
your late reunion on the fortieth anniversary of our gradua- 
tion, held at the old stand on the 13th of last June, and with 
it a copy of the picture taken on that occasion. I am proud 
of the noble appearance of that group, and I wish it might 
have been larger, including all who are still in this world. 
Especially do I wish that I might have been with you at that 
time, but distance is not yet quite annihilated. 

Our Secretary now demands an autobiographical sketch, 
and he wants it as long as I choose to make it. This is an 
untried field for my typewriter to ramble around in, and it 
may bring as many surprises to me as it does to you. More- 
over, you have already the main facts of my life, and I don't 
know as you will care for more. However, I will so far accede 
to the request as to mention a few incidents which I may not 
have narrated to any of you. 

On the 30th of January, 1844, I was born in Smyrna, 
Turkey, my father being a missionary stationed at that point. 
In the Spring of 1853, when I was nearly nine years old, my 
father removed his family to Constantinople, where we spent 
the next three years. This was the period of the Crimean War, 
and my recollections of that time are intimately connected 
with the facts of that war. A large encampment of French 
soldiers on the hills back of the suburb where we lived gave 
me my first impressions of military life. And still more 
thrilling were the great reviews of British troops on the 
plains of Scutari, just across the Bosphorus, in which the 
prominent figure was Lord Raglan, who was in command of 
the British forces. He was a notable man. He lost his right 
arm at the battle of Waterloo, and he died in 1855 of cholera 
in the camp before Sevastopol. Near Scutari also were the 
large barracks which for the time were turned into a great 
hospital, where Florence Nightingale first became famous. 



150 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

The tragic destruction of the Turkish fleet in the harbor of 
Sinope, the defeat of the Russians in the battle of the Alma, 
the charge of the British cavalry at Balaklava, the battle of 
Inkerman, and the various stages of the siege of Sevastopol 
were thrilling realities to us, as we saw the shiploads of sick 
and wounded passing down the Bosphorus. 

In 1856 I took my first long sea voyage, and long indeed it 
was, for we were seventy-two days in going from Smyrna to 
Boston. It was on the ' ' Race Horse, ' ' a barque of 700 tons 
burden, a clipper packet of beautiful model, and with a very 
good record for speed, but on this voyage fortune seemed to 
be against her with head winds and calms. Taking the south- 
ern route across the ocean we passed through what is called 
the Sargasso Sea, an extensive tract of the Atlantic Ocean 
thickly strewn with certain peculiar varieties of floating sea- 
weed. This weed is the dwelling place of multitudes of 
minute and beautifully colored and speckled crabs and other 
small animals, and is sometimes so compact as to perceptibly 
impede the progress of vessels. In the course of this voyage 
I became quite skilled in sailor craft, and knew and handled 
every rope and spar in the ship. Two years later I took 
another similar sea voyage, from Boston to Smyrna. These 
trips gave me the opportunity to spend a week each at Gib- 
raltar and Malta, and to become somewhat familiar with the 
picturesque and historic interests of each. I thus early got a 
strong taste for the sea and for roaming, and I have crossed 
the big pond not less than a dozen times in all. 

One incident I should have mentioned above, which occurred 
while we were still living in Smyrna. In 185 1 the harbor of 
Smyrna received a visit from the United States warship 
* ' Mississippi, ' ' and I had the privilege of going on board of 
her. The Hungarian patriot Kossouth had been for two 
years a refugee in Turkey, and there was in the United States 
so strong a feeling of sympathy for him and the cause of 
liberty which he represented, that our Government sent the 
"Mississippi" to convey him to a freer soil, and on their 
way they called at Smyrna. My father took me by the hand 
and led me into the great man's cabin, and I had the oppor- 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 151 

tunity to shake hands and converse with Kossouth. The 
* * Mississippi ' ' was a great paddle-wheel steamer, built entirely 
of wood, with a considerable armament, but not a plate of 
protection. 

I am very far from being a hero worshiper, but in this 
connection I may remark that I have pleasant recollections of 
having seen or had some acquaintance with a good many 
prominent persons, whose names have now drifted somewhat 
into the past. I have seen two of the Sultans of Turkey, 
Victor Emmanuel I. in Turin in 1861, Pope Pius IX. at two 
different times, the King and Queen of Greece frequently, 
Napoleon III. at the Paris Exposition in 1867, the Duke of 
Edinburgh in Edinburgh, and most of the Presidents of the 
United States since Pierce's Administration. I was present 
at the inauguration of President Grant in 1869, and of Presi- 
dent McKinley in 190 1. I have had more or less acquaintance 
with such men as Albert Barnes, of Philadelphia; Rufus An- 
derson, of Boston; Samuel Hanson Cox, Gardiner Spring, 
and John Hall, of New York; with Peter Cooper, Cyrus W. 
Field, and Thomas Hastings, the sweet singer, father of my 
former pastor, Thomas S. Hastings, of Union Theological 
Seminary. I have frequently heard Spurgeon and Beecher 
preach, and lectures from Wendell Phillips, William Lloyd 
Garrison, and John B. Gough. I have seen Edwin Booth in 
Shakespeare's dramas, have heard Charles Dickens read from 
his own writings, and have listened to Ole Bull's violin and to 
Parepa Rosa's voice. 

But to return to my story, and I must make it bri»f , for I 
have spun too much of a yarn over my boyhood. Having 
got most of my preparation for college from my father and 
mother, I started in the summer of 1861 for Princeton. This 
gave me the opportunity for a delightful trip through Italy, 
Switzerland, France, and England, on which, I think, I have 
sufficiently enlarged to you all on previous occasions. I 
arrived at my destination a few days after the opening of the 
term, having been detained on the ocean in a peculiar way. 
When we had got onto the Newfoundland Banks, and hence 
more than half-way from Liverpool to New York, the main 



152 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

shaft of the engine broke, and as that was before the days of 
twin screws, and as the trade winds were strong from the west, 
we were obHged to put about and go back to Cork Harbor, 
where we waited for the next boat of the same company, and 
they had to give us board and lodging for five long weeks 
instead of two. 

Of our four years of college life our Secretary is commis- 
sioned to tell us, and I will not poach on his preserves. One or 
two personal reminiscences, however, will not be precluded. 
When I arrived in Princeton, at the end of my 8,000-mile 
journey, a friendless, unsophisticated, and somewhat gawky 
youth, dear old John took me right into his house and gave 
me a room, and I sat at the table with him and Archie and 
the cats, and there I lived for ten days or more, for when 
after a few days I meekly suggested that he should tell me 
how to secure a room and boarding place, in his high falsetto 
voice he said: "Eh? eh? Don't you like your present room 
and board? It's good enough for me. Stay where you are. ' ' 
Finally, however, I was assigned to No. 11 North, where 
Archie MacMartin and Tom Raftery were my nearest neigh- 
bors, and right kindly they helped me to wear off some of my 
greenness. The next year I took 27 East with Frank Greene, 
and afterwards with McChesney, great-souled fellow, who 
was killed by robbers on his traveling boat in China. * ' Wol- 
fert's Roost" was the name of that room, and a right jolly 
room it was. There was organized the "American Chemical 
and Zoological Association, ' ' which puzzled outsiders with its 
strange initials, and gave us many a royal evening. But here 
I am plunging into college recollections, which I promised to 
leave to the class Secretary. During our first long vacation, 
in the summer of 1862, I spent some time with my uncle in 
Elmira, and while I was there my cousin, Edward Riggs, 
volunteered as a soldier. I went with him to the recruiting 
office, and was so carried away with the enthusiasm of the 
moment that I took up the pen that he laid down, and was 
on the point of giving myself to the Union cause. But my 
uncle, who stood behind me, laid his hand on mine and said: 
* * No, no, my boy; I can't allow that. I can give my own son, 



.HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 153 

— and God knows how hard that is, — but I can't give my 
brother's son without his distinct approval. ' ' The approval 
did not come, and that crisis was passed. How different my 
life might have been if I had gone into the army then ! 

After graduating I undertook some teaching in New York 
City for a year, but before winter had fairly set in I was pros- 
trated with a very severe attack of pneumonia, and had a very 
close call. My life was spared, and I went back to teaching, 
but did not recover my tone, and had to give it up before the 
close of the academic year. In April, 1866, I sailed for a trip 
abroad. This lengthened itself out to a year, spent mostly 
in Constantinople. It gave me a chance again for more 
travel, including a trip to Egypt and the Holy Land, and it 
thoroughly restored my health. While in Constantinople, 
with the aid of my father, I did the most important part of the 
first year of a theological course; and on returning to New 
York, in 1867, I entered the Middle year in the Union Theo- 
logical Seminary, and graduated there in May, 1869. During 
the same month was ordained, and received appointment as a 
missionary of the American Board, and also was married, on 
the 29th of May, 1869, to Miss Sarah H. Dwight. We were 
located first at Sivas, in Central Asia Minor, where we labored 
for seven years, being removed from there in 1876 to Marsovan, 
which has been our station ever since. I came to Marsovan 
primarily to be connected with the Theological Seminary of 
the Mission which was located here, and that has been my 
principal work ever since. Out of the preparatory depart- 
ment of the Theological Seminary grew a High School, and 
that has developed into a college — Anatolia College — with 
235 students. In the instruction and organization and man- 
agement of these schools I have had a share, as also in the 
administration of all other departments of the work of the 
station, including a large Girls' Boarding School, a Medical 
Department with Hospital and Dispensary, two Orphanages, 
an Industrial Department with furniture factory, shoe shop, 
tailor shop, and book bindery, relief work, etc., etc. But these 
all are only subsidiary means to the principal work of our 
station, and that is the evangelistic. This is accomplished in 



154 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

part by the missionary traveling about in his tours through 
all his own field, and frequently into the neighboring fields, 
visiting the churches and helping to guide their work, 
visiting also the smaller congregations that have no church 
organization, and preaching wherever he finds a chance. Also 
in large part by the native pastors, preachers, evangelists, 
booksellers, teachers, etc., whose work is supervised by the 
missionary. To get around to all these departments of work 
our station is now well manned, though we have often been 
direfully short-handed. We are five missionaries with their 
families, one missionary physician, seven single ladies, and 
one tutor in the college. These are Americans. There is 
also a fine corps of native professors and teachers in the 
schools, an English head nurse with native assistants in the 
hospital, beside the evangelistic workers mentioned above, 
I am not begging, but must mention for historic accuracy that 
these institutions are not for the most part supported by our 
Board, but depend some on small endowments and receipts 
from patrons, and some wholly on the voluntary contribu- 
tions of individual friends, and it is not by any means the 
easiest part of our work to secure the needed funds with 
which each year to make both ends meet. 

While I lived in Sivas my work consisted largely of the 
direct evangelistic, and even here some of my most thrilling 
and most satisfactory labors are in that line. It involves 
long and often difficult journeys, on horseback, in wagons, by 
steamboat and sailboat, through winter storms and summer 
heats, and in it we experience all the perils that St. Paul 
enumerates in 2 Cor. 11:26-28. And yet almost every mis- 
sionary will testify that this is his ideal of missionary life. I 
have fallen into the hands of robbers on the highway, and that 
when my wife and children were with me, I have been ar- 
rested by Turkish, police, and held in durance vile. I have 
slept times without number on the soft side of a pine board, 
and under the open sky. I have been through massacre, and 
threatened with assassination. But no inducement could 
tempt me to change my calling in life, and I trust I may be 
permitted to end my days in the harness. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 155 

After we had settled in Marsovan for a while, I was invited 
by the Mission to spend a year or two in Athens, in order to 
acquire the modern Greek language for use in the Theological 
Seminary. We were there two winters, and spent the inter- 
vening summer on the island of ^gina, near Athens. This was 
all a most interesting and delightful experience, and I took 
the occasion to make pedestrian and horseback journeys in 
most of the historic parts of Greece. 

Since then I have twice visited the United States, each time 
spending nearly two years there. The first time was in 1885, 
when I just missed by four days the twentieth anniversary 
reunion of our class. Fifteen years later I was more fortunate, 
being present at the thirty-fifth, in 1900, during my second 
visit home. If I were anywhere within a thousand miles of 
Old Princeton, nothing could keep me away from any of those 
quinquennial gatherings. During that second trip home I 
enjoyed the privilege of attending several very significant 
assemblages. One was the celebration in New York City of 
the coming in of the twentieth century; another was the 
Ecumenical Conference of Missions, held in Carnegie Hall; 
and another was the reception given to Admiral Dewey on his 
return from the Philippines; and another was the second 
inauguration of our lamented McKinley. 

I have alluded above to the touring part of my work, but by 
far the greater part of my time is occupied in the educational 
work, and especially with the Marsovan Theological Semin- 
ary, of which I have the honor to be called President. My 
department is Systematic Theology. Of course the work is 
in a steady routine, and does not call for much description. 
Our graduates are scattered all through the country, and on 
the average are doing very good work. 

Two years ago, at about this time of year, my nervous 
system suffered a serious collapse, and my physician sent me 
off for a complete change of scene. Sea voyages and foreign 
travel -being quite in my line I naturally "took to them, and it 
was not long before I was drifting about the Mediterranean. 
After a call at Smyrna, I spent a week at Naples, passed 
Christmas day at Algiers, and then pushed on to Gibraltar, 



156 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

and thence to Tangier, in Morocco, out on the Atlantic. And 
so I was about half-way to New York, and yet among the 
Arabs. It was only a few weeks after I was at Tangier that 
Mr. Perdicaris was abducted by Arab brigands, and thus was 
started the agitation which has not even yet settled the polit- 
ical future of that ill-governed state. Mr. Perdicaris' father 
and mine were friends a generation ago, and I visited their 
house in Trenton nearly fifty years ago. In Tangier I found 
some philanthropic and missionary work, and had a very 
interesting stay. Crossing then to Cadiz in Spain, I took a 
delightful trip through the romantically historic regions of 
Seville, Cordova, Madrid, the Escorial, Toledo, etc., and last 
of all, Granada and the wonderful Alhambra. Later I spent 
about a month each in Athens, Greece, Palermo, Sicily, and 
in the little village of Veytaux, close down by the Castle of 
Chillon, at the eastern end of the Lake of Geneva. In the last 
two places Mrs. R. was with me. After an absence of over 
seven months I came back to Marsovan, and took up half 
work. I am not yet up to par, but hope yet to recover my 
diminished vigor. 

And now a word in response to the request for ' ' statistics ' ' 
of my children, and I will cease to weary you. Providence 
has given us seven children, three girls and four boys, and 
they have all been spared to us to this day. But one by one 
they have flitted from the parental nest, and not one of them 
is under our roof. 

Susan D., the eldest, is married to a missionary, a member 
of this station, and is the only one who lives near us. Gradu- 
ated Elmira, '91. 

Charles T. is a missionary stationed at Constantinople. He 
is happily married, and has two children. Graduated 
Princeton, '93. 

Mary W. has been for three years missionary teacher in a 
Girls' Boarding School at Adabazar, not very far from Con- 
stantinople. She is spending the present year with her two 
brothers in Harpout, a missionary station about 330 miles to 
the southeast from here. Elmira, '97. 

Henry H. graduated in 1896 at Carleton College, North- 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. . I57 

field, Minn. He is now President of Euphrates College, in 
Harpout. He was married to the lovely daughter of my 
associate, Dr. Tracy, but she was taken away from him last 
summer, after one beautiful year of perfect happiness. 

Theodore D. entered Princeton in the fall of 1900, and was 
becoming prominent in football, when in December he was 
taken with pulmonary tuberculosis, which brought him very 
low. An almost miraculous Providence has restored him to 
health, and he is now a Sophomore in Colorado College, as 
his medical advisers tell him he ought to stay two or three 
years more in that State. 

Ernest W. graduated at Princeton in 1904, and is now 
tutor in Euphrates College, Harpout, Turkey, and is also 
United States Vice-Consul at that point. 

Emma C, our -baby, is a Freshman in Colorado College, 
where she has gone to be with her brother, Theodore. 

This ends my list, and I can only wish that the good Lord 
may have given you all such domestic prosperity and joy 
as He Has me. 

Now, good-'by, and may God bless each one of you abund- 
antly: 

Sincerely and affectionately, your classmate, 

Edward Riggs. 



RANDOLPH S. ROACHE. 

Born at Rockville, Parke County, Indiana, May 2d, 1843. 
At the age of 16 he moved to Indianapolis, where he fitted for 
college. Entered Princeton August, 1863, and graduated 
second. Roomed in town and 28 West. Clio. After gradu- 
ation he studied law and was admitted to the bar of Indian- 
apolis in October, 1866, but was soon seized with hemorrhage 
of the lungs and never was fully well. He went to Minnesota 
for his health, and died at St. Paul, July 14th, 1867. — C. F. R. 



'58 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 




F. S. SCHENCK 



FERDINAND S. SCHENCK. 



[Entered Fresh and roomed 9 Refectory. Whig. Won 
first Debate Medal in Hall. Taught at Edgehill during Senior 
year. His intimate acquaintance with the late President 
McKinley will be a surprise to many of us, and we are glad 
he has mentioned it in his report. — C. F. R.] 

Born August 6th, 1845. Graduated from Albany Law 
School in 1867. At the Law School I was a classmate of 
William McKinley. He sat next to me in the classroom and 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 159 

we became quite intimate. We kept up our friendship by 
occasional letters until his death. I was glad, and I think he 
was, that there was no office I desired within his gift as Presi- 
dent of the United States. His advice had much to do with 
my becoming a minister. He said, " If I thought and felt as 
you do, I would leave the law and become a minister. ' ' 

I began the practice of the law in Dubuque, Iowa, and had 
fair prospects of success. When after a year's practice I left 
the law I did so by declining a partnership offered me by an 
established and very prosperous firm. At Dubuque I made a 
friend of an eminent lawyer, a Judge of one of the higher 
courts, who advised me as did McKinley, and who added that 
he had made a reverse decision in his youth, and had not 
ceased to regret it in all his successful career. The decision I 
then made, I can now say, I have never regretted. 

Graduated from New Brunswick Theological Seminary in 
1872. 

I have been pastor of the following churches for the term 
of years given: Clarkstown, N. Y., 1872-77; Montgomery, N. 
Y., 1877-90; Hudson, N. Y., 1890-97 ; New York City, 1897-99. 

In 1 89 1 I received the honorary degree of Doctor of Divinity 
from Rutgers College. In 1892 I was elected President of the 
General Synod of the Reformed Church in America for one 
year. 

While pastor of the Collegiate Reformed Church at Univer- 
sity Heights, New York City, I was a member of the Council 
of New York University, and also taught "The Literary 
Study of the English Bible ' ' in the College of the University. 

In June, 1899, the General Synod of the Reformed Church 
in America elected me Professor of Practical Theology in the 
Theological Seminary at New Brunswick, N. J., which position 
I now occupy. 

During the years 1904 and 1905 I was the active Professor 
of Mental Philosophy in Rutgers College, still retaining my 
classes in the seminary, thus trying to do the work of two 
men. 

The Trustees of the College took the time thus given them to 
make a careful selection of a Professor for that important 
chair. 



l6o HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

I still do a great deal of preaching, spending many Sundays 
away from home, supplying pulpits within easy traveling 
distance from the seminary. 

Though now over sixty years old, I am doing more work daily,, 
and doing it with more ease and enjoyment, than I did when 
I was forty, and far more than I did when I was in college. 

I have published the following books, which have had a 
quite large and wide sale and have done some good, I hope, 
though they have not brought me in much money, certainly 
not a fortune: In 1889, ' ' The Ten Commandments in the Nine- 
teenth Century" ; in 1896, "The Bible Reader's Guide" ; in 1902, 
"The Ten Commandments and The Lord's Prayer"; in 1903, 
' ' Modern Practical Theology. ' ' This last is now being trans- 
lated into Chinese for use in mission training of native 
preachers and pastors. 

I have a couple more books in preparation, and hope to live 
long enough to see them in print. 

In Clarkstown, N. Y., in 1874, I was married to Ellie S. 
Haring, daughter of the leading physician in the place. 

We have had five children, three girls and two boys; all are 
living. One of the boys graduated from Rutgers College in 
1904 and is now studying law in New York City. The other 
boy expects to enter Rutgers soon. On account of my relation 
to the college here I cannot send my boys to Princeton. 

One of the girls graduated at Bradford, Mass.; another at 
Miss Graham's, New York City, and the third is still at home. 

My wife is still living and in excellent health. 

With my family around me, with my classroom work and 
my many preaching privileges and with some outreach to the 
great world, my life is busy and very happy. 



JAMES ROBBINS SCHENCK. 

Born at Princeton, April 8th, 1844. Fitted at Edgehill, 
1860-61. Entered August, 1861. Clio. Roomed at his 
father's, Prof. Schenck. After graduation went to Massa- 
chusetts, and on his return home was seized with dysentery 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 161 

and died September 13th, 1865, after an illness of ten days. — 
C. F. R. 



EDWARD HOUSTON SCOTT. 

Born at Mynpurie, India, September 24th, 1845. Fitted at 
Coatesville, Pa., between 1854 and 1861. Entered August, 
1 86 1. Roomed 25 East, 23 West and 52 North. Whig. 
Editor ' ' Nassau Lit, ' ' May, 1865. Taught in West Philadel- 
phia and Columbia, Pa., and afterwards employed in Presby- 
terian Board of Publication. I secured him a position as 
instructor at the Institution for the Blind in Philadelphia, but 
his health would not permit his accepting it. For a while he 
was assistant in Chemistry in the Philadelphia Central High 
School, but his health again broke down and he died in 1870, 
in Hammonton, N. J. — C. F. R. 



WILLIAM FRANCIS SHELLY. 

Born at Murray, Ky., June 15th, 1846. Fitted in Keokuk, 
Iowa, his home, 1862-63. Entered August, 1863. Whig. 
Roomed in town. After graduating entered business in New 
York City, and afterwards in wholesale dry goods in Keokuk 
until 1880, when he went to Chicago until 1884, when he went 
to Kansas City, Mo., with a trust company and in banking. 
Was married in 1875. Spent two years in Europe. When 
last heard from he was in Alabama, as manager for a lumber 
company in the southern part of the State. He replied to 
circular about the reunion in 1905, but I have been unable to 
reach him since. — C. F. R. 



GEORGE LE FEVRE SIMONSON. 

Born in New York City, February 15th, 1844. Fitted at 
Flushing, L. I., and entered August, 1861. Clio. Roomed 
7 North, 30 and 24 East, and in town. 



I62 ♦ HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

Your Historian regrets to say he has never been able to get 
a direct response to his appeals for data, but he feels sa^e in 
saying Simonson became a lawyer in New York City. Was 
married, and at present (August, 1906) living in the country on 
Long Island. When in New York City in August, 1906, your 
Historian, through the courtesy of Howard Campbell, '68, 
found "Verdi" had an oihce in Brooklyn at 1028 Gates Ave., 
with the East Brooklyn Co-operative Building Association. 
A call there showed his name on the door, and revealed the fact 
that he might be in later in the day. A young man in the 
office was shown the class group with Kelly's additions, and a 
note left for Simonson when he should come in, but no reply. 
One classmate said to me, * * You must take a stenographer 
with you and find him, if you want a report. ' ' 



ROBERT SLOSS. 

Born in New York City, November 23d, 1838. Fitted at 
Media, Pa. Entered August, 1861. Roomed 34, 31 and 33 
North. Whig. J. O. and second Belles Lettres oration at 
Commencement. Entered Princeton Theological Seminary, 
fall of 1 865 , and was tutor of rhetoric in college from September, 
1867. Afterwards he preached in various places in the West, 
mostly in Indiana. After some years his health failed and 
his mind seemed to be finally affected and he drifted to Mil- 
waukee, where he died, comparatively friendless, except for 
Rev. John N. Freeman, of '63, who accidentally heard of his 
illness in that city and did all he could to befriend him, but too 
late to save his life. To Butler and Grim we are indebted for 
many items of interest about Sloss in his college days, and 
many pleasant incidents can be recalled by those who knew 
him best. 

I have tried repeatedly to get a better account from his 
son, but have failed to receive any replies. — C. F. R. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 163 

JAMES NEWBOLD STRATTON. 

[Fitted at Lawrenceville, N. J., and entered February, 1863. 
Roomed 5 North, 7 East and Mrs. Joline's. Clio and Phi 
Kappa Sigma. J. O. and second Hall medal for select speak- 
ing. On Class Day he received the * * Ugly Man's Prize. ' ' 

Through the kindness of his sister I have the following 
interesting data. — C. F. R.] 

James Newbold Stratton was born in Mount Holly, N. J., 
August 26th, 1845. His father, the Hon. John L. N. Strat- 
ton, was a prominent lawyer of that place. His mother, 
Caroline Newbold, was a member of an old family of Burling- 
ton County. He was prepared at a private school in Mount 
Holly for Lawrenceville High School, which he entered in 
i860. In 1863 he entered Princeton College. Two years 
later he graduated with the class of '65, and in 1868 received 
the degree of A.M. He commenced at once the study of law 
in his father's office, and in 1868 was licensed as attorney and 
in 187 1 as counselor. He was successful in his profession 
and -took part in many important cases. In politics he was 
an ardent Republican, served on many important committees 
and frequently stumped the State in the interest of Repub- 
lican candidates. 

He was chosen a delegate to the Cincinnati Convention in 
1-876 which nominated for the Presidency the Hon. Ruther- 
ford B. Hayes. In August, 1873, he was commissioned 
Major of the Seventh New Jersey National Guards, and was 
raised to the position of Lieutenant Colonel and Judge Advo- 
cate later on. He never married. His death occurred 
December 3, 1886. 



JOHN L. THOMPSON. 

Entered Fresh from Lancaster, Pa. Won first select 
speaking medal in Clio Hall. Was in the Army in the summer 
of 1863, where he was taken with typhoid fever, and died in 
September, 1863, in Princeton. — C. F. R. 



164 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865, 



JAMES B. TOLER. 

Entered Fresh from Paterson, N. J., and left during Junior 
year. Clio. He was born in New York City, and after leav- 
ing college entered the brokerage business in New York City. 
He was a member of several prominent clubs in New York 
City, and died January 12th, 1890, in his forty-eighth year. 
Stephen Waibel named a son for him, J. Toler Waibel, who is 
a Pennsylvania Railroad Agent at East Millstone, N. J. — 
C. F. R. 



W. H. VAIL. 

Born at Stroudsburg, Pa., August 4th, 1845. Fitted at 
Blairstown, N. J., Presbyterial Academy, 1858-62. Entered 
August, 1862. Roomed 3 North and 30 East. Clio. Gradu- 
ated from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York 
City, in spring of 1869, and settled at Cornwall-on-the-Hudson, 
practicing medicine until the death of his brother, Charles E. 
Vail, in 1886, when he was called to Blairstown, N. J., to act as 
Secretary for John I. Blair. He remained there until 1901, 
when, Mr. Blair having died in 1899, the management of the 
estate necessitated his removal nearer New York City and he 
moved to Newark, N. J., with office in New York City. In 
May, 1872, he married Carrie M. Hamlin, daughter of Dr. Cyrus 
Hamlin, of Constantinople. In April, 1887, Mrs. Vail died, 
leaving him with four living children, one, a daughter of 
eleven, having died in April, 1886, and a son in 1903. In 
January, 1890, he married Mrs. H. H. Uhle, of Hacketts- 
town, N. J. 

In 1903 his daughter Loraine married Rev. Joseph Addison 
Jones, a Princeton graduate, now settled in Albany, N. Y., 
where he is pastor of the Madison Avenue Reformed Church. 
Cyrus Hamlin Vail married two years since Miss Mary Wilson* 
of Roseville, N. J., and is a lawyer in Newark, N. J., residing 
at home. The other son, Charles E. Vail, graduated this year 
from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York City, 



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165 



and is now on duty at St. Luke's Hospital, New York City, for 
a term of over two years. The two sons, Cyrus and Charles, 
are Princeton graduates, and the third son died while prepar- 
ing for college. He has certainly been loyal to Princeton as 




W. H. VAIL 



well as to Blair Academy, which prepares many boys for Old 
Nassau. 

Outside of his duties as Secretary, he writes, he has become 
much interested in the educational institutions of our country. 
He has been a Director, Secretary and Treasurer of Blair 
Academy, at Blairstown, N. J., ever since removing there in 



l66 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

1886. He has been a Trustee in Lincoln University, in Chester 
County, Pa., for several years, and much interested in the 
work being done at Park College, at Parkville, Mo. ;. as well as 
in the struggle that our beloved and lamented classmate,. 
Hewitt, made in behalf of Emporia College, in Kansas, which 
effort cost him his life. 

Vail says his life has been a rather busy one, yet it has 
measured up at least to the average in happiness and grati- 
fication. Present address, 24 Broad Street, New York City. 



GEORGE L. VAN BIBBER. 

Was born in Harford County, Maryland, December 14th,. 
1845. When eight years of age he started to study with a Mr. 
Thomas Archer, and continued at the same school until 1862,. 
when he entered the College of New Jersey at Princeton, from 
which he graduated in 1865. Immediately upon his gradua- 
tion he commenced the study of law in a law office in Belair,. 
Md., the county seat of Harford county, and passed the bar 
November, 1867, and then took up the practice of his profes- 
sion in Belair, and continued to practice there until 1903,, 
when he was elected an Associate Judge of the Third Judicial 
Circuit of Maryland. Since that event his time has been 
spent attending the Courts of Baltimore and Harford Counties. 
He never held any public office either of profit or trust until he 
was elevated to the bench. He was married in 187 1 and in 
due course five children were born, three of whom are now 
living, one son and two daughters; the son and one daughter 
are married and between them have five living children. In 
personal appearance he looks about the same as he did in 
1865, except that he is growing gray and wrinkled. He is not 
bald-headed neither, but he has grown stout. That is all 
that can be said about him. He has lived a regular, sober 
and abstemious life, neither seeking political eminence nor 
having it thrust upon him. 

[Van entered Soph. Roomed 15 North and 32 West. 
Whig.— C. F. R.] 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 167 



GEORGE M. WALKER. 

Came to us during the early part of Fresh year from Flint, 
Mich., and went to the University of Michigan to study law. 
Clio.— C. F. R. 



SAMUEL S. WALLEN. 

[Born at Bridgeton, N. J., February, 1842. Fitted at West 
Jersey Academy. Entered August, 1863. Roomed 2 West. 
Whig. Wallen entered into eternal rest July 14th, 1906, as 
the extract from the Philadelphia Presbyterian, obtained 
through kindness of McClellan, will show. We may feel glad 
that we have Wallen 's story from his own pen, sent me last 
year.— C. F. R.] 

According to my way of thinking, it is not a very pleasant 
task that is now set before me — the giving an account of my 
life and work since leaving college. It necessarily requires 
such a repetition of the Ego. 

When we separated on the college campus in 1865, I went 
home and spent the summer there, as I had been accustomed 
to spend most of my vacations. In the fall of 1865 I took a 
course in a commercial college in Philadelphia. It did not 
require a very long time to pass through that college and 
graduate. The balance of the year 1865 and up to the fall of 
1866, I spent part of the time at my father's home and part of 
the time assisting my brother on the farm. In the fall of 
1866, after recovering from a severe spell of sickness, I entered 
the Theological Seminary at Princeton. During the holidays 
of my second year at the seminary I took cold in my eyes, 
which became a chronic inflammation — granulated eyelid is 
what the Doctor called it. This interfered somewhat with 
my studies during the balance of my seminary course, but I 
continued on with my studies and graduated with the class. 
From the seminary I went to my father's home, and spent the 
summer in trying to doctor up my eyes and preaching occa- 
sionally. No special effort was made to secure a charge, as it 



l68 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

seemed very doubtful as to whether I could enter upon the 
work with my eyes in that condition. But as they were some- 
what improved by the fall or early winter of 1869, I took a 
trip to the State of Iowa, thinking that I would settle there 
if the way should open up. 

But from the long vision over those prairies, with nothing to 
break the view, and the almost constant winds, I was soon 
convinced that was not the country for me, and I returned to 
New Jersey. 

During that winter I paid a visit to my seminary classmate, 
A. H. Parker, who had secured a charge and was settled at 
Milroy, in Mifflin County, Pa. While I was with Rev. Parker 
he told me that the Middle Tuscarora Church in Juniata 
County was vacant, or he thought it was, and he said if I 
would go there he would give me a letter of introduction to 
one of the elders. I told him that if I went I might discover 
that the church had already called some one, and besides I 
did not like to go without an invitation from some of the 
officers. Then Rev. Parker wrote to one of the elders, and 
received answer that the church was still without a pastor, 
and they would be glad if I could preach for them the follow- 
ing Sabbath. The invitation was accepted. I preached for 
them three Sabbaths, and then returned to my home. In 
about two weeks there came a call, which I accepted. Some 
seven or eight years was spent with this Middle Tuscarora 
Church. I Hked the church and people very well. Preached 
twice on Sabbath, but only one sermon a week to prepare, but 
quite frequently called upon to conduct funeral services, for 
I was the only minister located in that community for some 
miles around. 

Perhaps it might be proper to say, just at this point, that 
when I came to this church and took charge, I had not yet 
seen her who was to be my wife. I had not allowed myself to 
be involved in any such * * entangling alliances. ' ' But only 
a few weeks passed till she came to visit friends in that com- 
munity. Her parents once lived in that place and her father 
was elder of the church, but she was taken from home when 
a small child to live with an uncle and aunt in Washington 



HISTORY 0.F THE CLASS OF 1865, 169 

City, where she grew to womanhood. I met her a few times 
while there on her visit, but thought no more about it than 
meeting other strangers, for the whole community was strange 
to me yet. As you perhaps well know is apt to be the case, 
some of the people began to be very much interested in my 
welfare, and pitied me in my lonely state, and this young lady 
was often mentioned as being well suited for such a position. 
But I was then too much interested and engaged in my church 
work to pay much attention to the one thing they seemed to 
think so needful. But circumstances soon became such as to 
indicate that it would be the proper thing for me to do, for 
it seemed to be almost impossible to find a suitable place to 
board and for my study. And as the general opinion of the 
people was that she was the suitable one, perhaps with a 
better acquaintance I might be of the same opinion, and after 
some correspondence and visits and a better acquaintance 
the matter was settled, and she who was Miss Angie Anderson 
became Mrs. Wallen. She came back to live at the place 
where she was born, where her father had been elder of the 
church, where she was well known, and if there was any 
opinion on the part of the people that the arrangement was 
not a proper one, we never had any knowledge of it. There 
has often been a doubt in my mind as to whether or not I did 
not make a mistake in leaving that Middle Tuscarora charge. 
There was no reason, only an excuse, and that a poor one, as 
I now view it. I was without a regular charge for some time, 
part of that time spent in visiting friends and relatives and in 
supplying some vacant churches. 

In December, 1879, I accepted a call to the churches at 
Jacksonville and Hublersburg, in Center County, Pa., in Hunt- 
ingdon Presbytery, the same as my previous charge. I 
served these churches only two years, when I accepted a call 
to the Eastern Church of Washington City. I regard this as the 
most unfortunate move of my life. So far as the membership 
of the church and congregation was concerned it was satis- 
factory enough, so far as I know, but some of the officers of the 
church I looked upon as utterly unreliable and untrustworthy. 
I found them to be working secretly and underhandedly 



170 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

against me. Some of the members of Presbytery urged me 
to hold on and fight back such elements and not yield to 
them. But the field is too big to contend for so small a place, 
and I had no desire to enter into any contest, so I just quit. 
We decided to try some Western field, where there was a 
greater need of preaching, and also we thought it might be 
beneficial to Mrs. Wallen's health, for she had lost her health 
in Washington by taking a severe cold which seemed to be 
rapidly affecting her lungs. But by the time we were ready 
to make the move she was too poorly to travel so far and I 
could not leave her. So we packed up and stored our goods 
in Washington, and went to Pennsylvania, within the bounds 
of my first charge, to make our home for the time being 
among our friends there. This church of my first charge was 
now without preaching service. They had a pastor since I 
left them, but he had gone to a church in Baltimore. The 
elders of the church came to me and asked me to supply the 
church while I was there on the ground. I was not in good 
shape for work, my books all boxed and packed up in Wash- 
ington, but I consented to preach for them. During that 
year about twenty united with the church on profession, and 
among them there were several whom I had baptized in 
infancy the very first time that I performed that ordinance, 
at which time I baptized sixteen babies. We remained in 
this place one year, from May till May of the following year. 
By this time my wife had improved so that she was able to 
travel, and we started westward, stopping at three different 
points on the way to visit friends, till finally we reached 
Kansas. There were those here who were anxious for me to 
remain and enter some of the fields that were needing the 
church and services badly, but my wife did not improve, in 
fact seemed to be gradually failing, and knowing what it 
would mean to her under such circumstances to be among old 
friends and kindred I returned to Pennsylvania with her, for I 
was convinced that she would not live long. 

It was in September we returned, had our goods shipped 
from Washington and went to housekeeping again. Mrs. W. 
lived only till January following when she was called home, 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 171 

her last words, * * I will soon exchange earth for heaven. ' ' 
She left with me a little daughter five years old. 

In the following May, being the year 1886, I with my little 
girl went to Kansas and located at Russell, the county seat 
of Russell County, in response to a request from the Presby- 
tery. There had been a Presbyterian Church organized at 
Russell some years before, but very little preaching and none 
very recently, so the church, all that there ever was, had about 
gone to pieces. I commenced holding services in a room over 
the County Clerk's office. The attendance was as good as the 
room would permit, for it was small. During my second year 
there we built a very neat little church costing about $2,800. 
The congregation was increasing, and I began to flatter my- 
self and thought that we would soon have that church room 
full. But my expectations were not to be realized, hard 
times came, failure of crops year after year, people began to 
move away, and our congregation didn't anything more than 
hold their own the balance of the time that I was there. 
There was an excellent class of people in Russell, intelligent 
and cultured, and as liberal and kind-hearted people as I ever 
lived among. 

During my first year at Russell I went out into the country, 
twenty miles over the prairies, to a little place called Fairport 
and began services there, once in four weeks at first, and then 
every other Sabbath. We organized a church there, and I 
continued to preach for them some seven or eight years. It 
was a live active band of Christians from the start, and I re- 
garded it a great advantage to that community, for there 
were no other services of the kind for miles around. But I had 
some rather trying experiences in my twenty miles* ride there 
and twenty back, in the cold winter and the heat of summer. 
About six or seven years after I went to Russell, and while I was 
busy with my work there and at Fairport, I began to be affected 
with heart trouble and it was so that I had to give up work 
altogether, became so weak that I could scarcely walk. We 
went back East and rested up for about four months and, 
somewhat improved, returned to Russell and took up the 
work again, and I continued to improve till I could get along 



172 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

with the work very comfortably, but was never able to endure 
the same amount of physical exertion as formerly. When I 
had been at Russell about two years I received a call back to 
my first charge, the Middle Tuscarora Church. But on account 
of one special obstacle I did not see my way clear to accept 
the call. After I had been in Russell eleven years I was 
taken, all unexpectedly and without warning, with hemor- 
rhages and had seven severe ones within forty-eight hours. 
Although I had never imagined there was anything wrong 
with my lungs, yet I supposed the hemorrhages were from the 
lungs and believed that the days of my life were numbered. 
But the hemorrhages proved to be from the throat and not 
the lungs. But the loss of so much blood prostrated me 
greatly, so I was confined to my bed for two weeks, and then 
just able to move about the house. 

And just at this time I was called upon to endure the 
greatest trial of my life. That little daughter that I brought 
with me when I came to Kansas was now past sixteen, a 
bright intelligent girl, and always so devoted to her papa. 
But the Lold took her to Himself, and it seemed as if it would 
take the heart from me when she was taken, and I have never 
gotten over that great loss. 

At this time I was not expecting ever to be able to preach 
any more. But as I began to gather strength during the 
summer I began to feel as if I might be able to do work yet, 
if I could find some small church farther East where the alti- 
tude was not so high and the air so light. And the way 
opened up for me, for in October I received an invitation to 
supply the Clinton Church in Topeka Presbytery. This was 
a country charge, about twelve miles from Lawrence, the 
nearest railroad point. Here we had a good substantial class 
of people, mostly farmers. We remained at Clinton three 
years, and might have remained till this time for aught I know. 
But there was one serious difficulty, and that was the lack of 
school advantages, for there was only a common county 
school, a rather poor one at that, and only seven months' term 
during the year, and we had a girl then seven or eight years 
old to educate. And now I must go back a few years and 
make a statement that I failed to make in its proper place. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 173 

When I had been in Kansas about two and a half years I 
went back to Pennsylvania, to my first charge, and laid claim 
to a member of that church — her name was Miss Georgiana 
Stewart — to be my wife. And the girl spoken of above is her 
daughter. So I gave up the charge at Clinton, with no 
expectation of seeking another charge, for I had passed the 
' ' dead line, ' ' and knew that on account of age I would not 
be acceptable to the churches. We came to Humboldt, 
Kansas, where we are now living. Last fall I was requested 
to supply the church at Carlyle, a station on the railroad just 
one-half hour's ride from Humboldt. I had decided that I 
would not seek any charge, but I was willing to work if it 
should be offered to me. So I consented to supply them till 
the spring meeting of Presbytery, but still living in Humboldt. 
When that time had expired they voted for me to continue 
my services, and I had preached for them only a few Sabbaths 
when my heart trouble returned worse than ever before, and 
then the hemorrhages from the throat returned, having one 
almost every day for a while, and that is my condition now, 
utterly unable to do anything, and it has taken me several 
days to write this sketch, for I can write only a little at a 
time, and I realize that I am liable to go any moment by 
heart failure. But it is all well, for ' ' My hope is built on 
nothing less than Jesus' blood and righteousness. ' ' 

My second wife is living and we have one child living, a 
daughter sixteen years old, Ruth McCoy Wallen. Very few 
of my classmates have I met since we separated in 1865. 
How many are yet living I do not know. I would be glad to 
have the privilege of reading this class history, but that may 
not be. , May each and every one of us " lay hold of the hope 
set before us in the Gospel. ' ' 

S. S. Wallen. 

Humboldt, Kan., July 15, 1905. 

DEATH IN THE MINISTRY. 

Rev. S. S. Wallen, a member of the Presbytery, died at his home in 
Humboldt, Kansas, Saturday evening, July 14, 1906, aged sixty-six 
years. He was born near Bridgeton, N. J., February 24, 1840. His 



174 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

early life was spent on a farm, where he remained until he was grown to 
manhood. He entered West Jersey Academy and prepared himself 
for college. He was a member of the class of '65 of Princeton 
College, and graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1869, 
and was ordained by the Presbytery of Huntingdon in 1870. He was 
pastor of the Middle Tuscarora Church for six years. 

In 1886 he came to Kansas, where he served the church of Russell 
for a great many years. During this time he organized the church 
of Fairport. He remained in this charge eleven years. 

After leaving Russell, he served the church at Clinton, in the Pres- 
bytery of Topeka, for three years. He then, on account of increasing 
infirmity, retired to Humboldt, where he remained until the time of his 
death. This is the simple story of a quiet and faithful life in the service 
of Christ. He was a strong preacher of the Princetonian type, and 
was greatly loved as a man and a pastor. He leaves a wife and daugh- 
ter to mourn his loss. The remains were taken to Waterford, Pa., for 
interment. 



GEORGE WILLIAM WELLS. 

Born at Tyrone, Steuben County, N. Y., June 5th, 1841. 
Fitted at Goshen, N. Y., 1859-61. Entered August 15th, 
1 86 1. Clio. Roomed 8 North, 31 East and 24 North. 
First editor of Nassau Quarterly Married the day after 
graduation to Miss Emma Hamilton, of Princeton. Was 
quite an artist and, it is understood, was the designer of the 
Pear picture of * ' Dad ' ' and the * * Three Turks ' ' — a group of 
'66 men. Became a reporter and studied medicine. Entered 
Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1866, graduating with 
honors. Practiced in West Chester County, N. Y., for a 
while and finally became Medical Examiner for the Mutual 
Life Insurance Company, of New York City, and later with 
another life insurance company. 

' ' Gid ' ' was an expert in legal medicine and secretary of 
several medical societies. 

He died about ten years ago, I think, but have not been 
able to ascertain any particulars. He left several children, 
one of whom married a Swiss gentleman and was living in 
Switzerland at last accounts. — C. F. R. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 175 

WILLIAM DELANY WETHERILL. 

[Fitted at W. Fewsmith's school in Philadelphia. Entered 
September, 1862, and roomed 51 North. Whig and Phi 
Kappa Sigma. Won Quarterly Prize Essay. Woodbine 
Orator on Class Day. Editor Nassau Herald. Took " first " 
three times in Sophomore and Junior years. 

We are indebted to his widow for the following items of 
interest, sent us on request for the class book. — C. F. R.] 

William Delany Wetherill, the son of Robert and Phoebe 
Delany Wetherill, was born in Lower Merion Township, 
Montgomery County, Pa., December i6th, 1845. He went 
to live in Philadelphia in early childhood. Was prepared at 
a private school, for Princeton College. He graduated in the 
class of '65. He went abroad for a year. On his return 
entered the law office of George W. Biddle. After being 
admitted to the bar he practiced law in Philadelphia at 204 
South Fifth street until the time of his death. He was greatly 
interested in historical investigations and was a member of 
the Pennsylvania Historical Society. He took quite an 
active part in politics. He was a Democrat. He was also a 
very active Mason and was very high in Masonry at the time 
of his death, which occurred in Philadelphia, February nth, 
1887. He married Louisa, daughter of Hon. John L. N. 
Stratton, of Mount Holly, N. J. The children of William D. 
and Louisa S. Wetherill were John Stratton Wetherill, who 
died in early manhood, and Maud Walker Wetherill, who is 
living. 

JOHN WILLIAMSON WHITE. 

Born in Philadelphia, June 27th, 1842. Fitted at West 
Jersey Academy, 1861-62. Entered August, 1863. Roomed 
24 West. Whig. Librarian Philadelphia Athenaeum March, 
1865, to October, 1866, while reading law. Admitted to the 
bar January, 1868. Subsequently he went to St. Paul, Minn., 
where he has met with much success in his vocation. Cannot 
get any replies to several appeals for data. — C. F. R. 



176 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

MORRIS WINFIELD. 

I was born January 27th, 1840, in the town of Shawangunk, 
Ulster County, New York, on a farm. My ancestors settled 
on this farm at an early date, receiving a patent from the King 
of England. This farm is still in the family. The farm is 
located about thirteen miles west of Newburg, in the Walkill 
Valley. The Catskill range of mountains is five miles to the 
west, and looking to the east you see the mountains across 
from Newburg. 

I received my principal education in a little red schoolhouse 
that stood on a corner of my father's farm, and afterwards 
prepared for college in an academy at Montgomery, Orange 
County, New York, and at Ellen ville, in Ulster County, teach- 
ing school part of the time in order to get money to defray 
my expenses. I entered college in the fall of i860, and should 
have graduated in 1864. At the end of the first year my 
health was poor and I went West into Wisconsin and Illinois 
for two years, and during this time took my Sophomore 
course in Illinois College at Jacksonville. During these two 
years I enlisted in the Sixty-eighth Illinois Infantry. Our 
regiment was sent to Virginia and I remained in the service 
for four months. I returned East in 1863 and entered the 
Junior class at Princeton, where I remained until I gradu- 
ated. Roomed 7 Refectory. Clio. Editor Nassau Quarterly 
with "Gid" Wells. My history is an uneventful one. In the 
spring of 1865 I engaged to take charge of an academy at 
Jordan, New York. My necessities compelled me to do some- 
thing. Before leaving Princeton Prof. James Hughes had 
opened an academy in Logansport, under the auspices of the 
Presbyterian Synod. Through his brother, who was a Junior, 
he requested me to go to Logansport and accept a position as 
teacher in this new academy ; but at that time I had no inten- 
tion of moving West. I went to Jordan, New York, about the 
middle of April, and found that the conditions of the academy 
at Jordan had been misrepresented to me. It was a failing 
institution. I opened school with one assistant teacher and 
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I made investigation and found that it would be an arduous 
task to put the institution upon a paying basis. I made up 
my mind not to undertake the task. I opened school on the 
second morning with the same number of pupils, and then 
dismissed the school. I sent a telegram to Prof. Hughes, at 
Logansport, inquiring if he still needed me and packed my 
trunk, prepared, if the answer was favorable, to take the next 
train West, and if unfavorable to take the next train East. 
A favorable answer came and I went to Logansport and taught 
one year in this academy, having charge of the classics and 
higher mathematics. During this year I studied law with 
Judge Biddle, who was at that time Circuit Judge. At the 
close of the school year I went into the law office of Daniel D. 
Pratt, who afterwards became United States Senator, and 
studied law in his office, reciting to Judge Biddle, until the 
fall of 1866, when I entered the law school at Albany, New 
York. I did not complete my year for want of funds, but 
went back to Logansport in May, 1867, and on the first of 
June opened a law office and stuck out my shingle, and from 
that time on the struggle for existence commenced. I was 
almost a stranger in a strange land, without means, but 
succeeded in maintaining myself the first year, when my 
practice began to grow and I soon found myself with consider- 
able business occupying all my time. 

Thinking that my business warranted it, I married on the 
7th day of May, 1868, Jennie M. Johnson, a resident of Logans- 
port, to whom I had become engaged while teaching. We 
have had three children, two girls and one boy. Both girls 
died, but my son is living, is now about thirty-three years of 
age, married and has two children. He is a Princeton man 
of the class of '95 — thirty years after. 

It is difficult for one to write about himself. In a few years 
after I commenced practicing I had all the business I could 
attend to. My business extended over several counties in 
Northern Indiana, with an occasional case in the United States 
Court at Indianapolis. In 1872 I became Corporation Counsel 
for the City of Logansport, which position I held for two 
years. Owing to some important litigation which the city 



178 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

had on hand, I accepted the position again in 1878 and held 
it for two years again. In 1882 I was elected Judge of the 
Cass Circuit Court for a term of six years. I accepted this 
position at the time because my health had become somewhat 
impaired. My health being restored and the position of 
Judge being a non-lucrative one, I resigned after serving five 
years and again resumed the practice. During the next 
twelve years I devoted my time largely to corporation busi- 
ness, and in this time was engaged in several important 
cases in the State and Federal Courts, one drifting to the 
Supreme Court of the United States. In 1898 I was elected 
to the State Senate and served during the sessions of 1899 and 
1 90 1. In the Senate I took a vigorous stand against certain 
corporation measures, which lost me, to some extent, my 
corporation business. This could not be helped. Having" 
accepted the position of Senator, where my duties were to the 
people, I could not serve two masters. 

I will not attempt to give a history of the cases which I 
have been interested in as counsel. I have avoided politics as 
much as possible and have given my time to the law. The old 
adage is true of the lawyer, ' ' He cannot serve two masters. ' ' 
To reach any degree of success in the profession requires con- 
stant attention and hard work. Up to the time I entered 
upon my duties as Judge I had not accumulated much prop- 
erty, but had spent my income with a liberal hand. Since 
retiring from the bench I have accumulated a fair amount of 
this world's goods, enough to keep the wolf from the door, and, 
for the last couple of years I have not worked so hard. 

Logansport is a beautiful little city, situated at the con- 
fluence of the Wabash and Eel rivers. When I came to Logans- 
port in 1865 it was a city of about 4,000 inhabitants. It is 
now, in connection with the suburbs, a city of about 22,000, 
and very much of a railroad centre. I expect to end my days 
on the banks of the Wabash. I have regretted frequently 
that I could not visit Princeton during some of the Commence- 
ments, but they generally occur in a very busy season. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865, 1 79 



WILBUR FISK WOOD. 

Member of '65 during Fresh year. Clio. Enlisted in 
August, 1862, in 127th New York Volunteers and left the 
service in 1865. Taught in Trenton awhile and afterwards 
studied for the Presbyterian ministry and had pastorates in 
various places. At last accounts on Staten Island, N. Y. — 
C. F. R. 



WILLIAM GOULD WOODBRIDGE. 

Born in Henderson, Ky. Entered Sophomore. Roomed 
16 East, with Logan. Whig. Left at beginning of Senior 
year and taught awhile. Was in business in Kentucky until 
1872, when he moved to Mississippi; to August there, until 
September, 1876, when he entered the Theological Seminary 
at Columbia, S. C, where he remained a student for two years; 
entered the Senior class in Princeton Theological Seminary in 
1878, and graduated in theology in 1879. Was called from 
seminary to the pastorate of the Enterprise (Miss.) Presby- 
terian Church, which in connection with the Philadelphus and 
Bethel Churches he served till the fall of 1880, when he was 
called to Hot Springs, Ark., where he remained until 1882; 
then, on account of failing health, he resigned. Preached 
as temporary supply in the First Church of Memphis, Tenn., 
and in the church at Natchez, Miss., for six months; then ac- 
cepted a call to Warrenton, Va., whence he was called to the 
Fifth Church of Chicago, 111., and installed there as pastor in 
January, 1884. After a pastorate of four years he resigned, 
and being dismissed to the Presbytery of Long Island, took 
charge of the church at Mattituck, L. I. Was married in 
February, 1880, to Miss Mary Stubbs, of Portsmouth, Va. 
Three children came to him, only one of whom survives. But 
let him speak for himself : 

Am now pastor of the Avondale (Ala.) Presbyterian Church, 
and my address is 3910 Fifth Avenue, South, Birmingham, 
Ala. 



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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 



I am more than forty years older than I was while at 
Princeton as a college man, but I was quite young^while 
there. I am quite young yet — only sixty-one next July 23d. 

After leaving Mattituck, L. I., in 1891, I became"pastor at 




W. G. WOODBRIDGE 



Griffin, Ga., where I remained until October, 1901, when, 
broken in health, I resigned, and soon after took charge of 
Kirkwood, a small suburban church near Atlanta, Ga. Last 
November I was called here, where I hope to ' ' round up. ' ' I 
am a commonplace old fellow, who have had grace given me 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 181 

to make a host of friends and strength to have evoked the 
enmity of a few. My convictions several times have been too 
strong to allow me to live at perfect peace with all men. I 
have a conscience, a stomach, and some nerves. Owing to 
these three in combination I have not always been perfectly 
happy. 

I belong to the Presbyterian Church, and vote as my con- 
science dictates. I owe the little that I am to the Lord Jesus 
Christ, the human-divine Saviour of men. I am an oldtime 
believer in Him. I have tried to keep abreast of the times, 
but have about concluded that the Bible will do to tie to, and 
am tied to it. I am going graveward with a smile on my face 
and love in my heart. I have forgotten how to hate. 

I should love to see the fellows again. God bless us all ! 

My dear, faithful wife is with me in the manse. My son, 
our only child, is living in Washington (State), married and 
doing well. 



THOMAS YOUNG. 

Born in Princeton. With us only in Freshman year. 
Moved to a farm near Hightstown, N. J., and in 1864 married 
a Miss Laird. No further data secured. — C. F. R. 



THE FORTIETH REUNION OF THE 

CLASS OF '65, PRINCETON 

UNIVERSITY. 



In response to a call thrice made at sundry dates, the Fortieth 
Anniversary of '65 was held at Princeton on Tuesday, June 13, 1905. 
About II A.M. sundry distinguished strangers, more or less gray- 
haired and dignified, were seen approaching the steps of the West End 
of Dickinson Hall; they had heard the call and in response entered the 
English Room, where greetings and recognitions and, in some cases, 
introductions ensued. At this preliminary meeting the following 
answered the roll: Abert, Butler, Calkins, English, P. Greene, J. 
Greene, Hunt, Keen, Kelly, Logan, McCammon, McClellan, Penning- 
ton, Richardson, P. Schenck and Vail. 

Later in the day Arrowsmith and Leggett joined us, so that there 
were eighteen with us most of the day. 

In his happy line of thought McCammon greeted us, and an order 
of business not being on the schedule, the question of a class group to 
be photographed in front of North College was taken up, and the time 
set immediately after our adjournment. By a unanimous vote Abert 
was selected to represent us at the Alumni dinner in the new Gymna- 
sium; and on his motion it was voted that the class as a body call upon 
Professor Cameron in the afternoon, as he was the only survivor of 
our instructors, and we desired once more to meet him in a social way, 
even if we had not prepared the lesson for the day. The question of 
the publication of a history of the class was brought up, and on motion 
the Secretary was to continue in his office indefinitely, and he was also 
appointed the Historian of the class, to prepare the record of the same 
from the origin up to the present date, as far as he could gather the 
materials from any source. The announcement A^as made of the 
Alumni luncheon at i o'clock, after which the meeting adjourned, 
and the class assembled on the steps of old North and faced the camera, 
the result of which we all know. 

The Alumni Dinner. — At the Alumni dinner as the classes were 
assigned to seats in the order of graduation, '65 was pretty well near the 
front, and we may say that there were no better seats at the feast than 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 183 

we had. We sat together and dined together at the end of a table a 
short distance from the presiding officer, A. H. JoHne, of New York, 
of the class of '60; and the second man at his left was Abert, a distin- 
guished English guest separating him only from the head of the feast. 
Seventeen classes from '55 to '04 responded. After Mr. Joline's 
address of welcome, President Woodrow Wilson spoke of the condition 
of the College, and the proposed new plan, or preceptorial system, 
aiming at more individual instruction than heretofore. From his 
remarks one would be led to suppose that Princeton had only to wish 
tor funds for any specified object and the essential would promptly 
appear. Of course he was heartily applauded, although it may be 
that some of us did not exactly endorse all that he said in regard to 
the management of the College affairs — possibly we are antiques and 
not up to date. 

Sir William Mather. M.P., of England, was the next speaker, com- 
paring in a measure English and American systems of instruction. 
He was followed by Rev. Henry Lee, of the class of '55, who had not 
been back since graduation. Since his graduation, he said, he had 
met but one classmate. He made a strong appeal for the stronger 
sustentation of the Halls; and then, in natural sequence, '65's repre- 
sentative, William Stone Abert, of Washington, D. C, responded as 
follows : 

Mr. President, Classmates and Members of the Alumni of Princeton 
University: It is with great pleasure that we meet again upon the 
fortieth anniversary of our graduation from this noble institution of 
learning. 

The class of '65 entered upon the four years' course at Princeton in 
the year 186 1, during the Civil War. And the year of our graduation 
was marked by the close of that war, and the tragic death of our 
lamented President Abraham Lincoln. 

During the forty years that have passed, many of the members of 
our class have achieved distinction and success; and it is most fitting 
that mention should be made of those whose lifework reflects honor 
not only upon themselves but upon Alma Mater — dear ' ' Old Nassau. ' ' 

Professor Hunt tells us that the average scholarship of the members 
of our class compares favorably with the scholarship of the present 
da}^ 

Among the professions adopted by the members of our class — -the 
ministry, law, medicine and literature — the majority selected the law. 
And many have earned distinction in these several fields. 

As the President of the United States is the foremost man of distinc- 
tion and popularity in the nation, so in our class of '65 we regard our 
honored President the most prominent and deserving recipient of 
our highest esteem, admiration and affection — a man of national 
reputation and friendships. Joseph Kay McCammon, who came to us 



184 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

from the Keystone State, has in our judgment accompHshed success in 
a marked degree. The learned and accompHshed lawyer, he was for 
many years the able and trusted attorney and counselor specially 
employed by the United States in the Court of Claims at Washington. 
And later he was the Assistant Attorney- General of the United States 
for the Interior Department. He has nobly performed all of these and 
his other life duties with signal ability, industry and fidelity. It gives 
all of the members of his class now present the greater pleasure in 
thus presenting his name for the consideration of this assembly. 

Among the other lawyers of our class who have won distinction at 
the bar, and who have been most appropriately honored by elevation 
to the bench in their respective States, we find the names of Joseph 
Cross, of Elizabeth, New Jersey; John Upshur Dennis, of Baltimore, 
Maryland; John S. Jessup, of Woodbury, New Jersey; George L. 
Van Bibber, of Bel Air, Maryland, and Morris Winfield, of Indiana. 

All of them are regarded as Judges of the highest integrity, learn- 
ing and ability. 

As a member of the Faculty of this University we find the name 
of our classmate, Theodore Whitefield Hunt, our first honor man, and 
the distinguished Professor of English Language and Literature, 
who has also added to the achievements of our brethren in the field 
of authorship by his valuable literary contributions and books. 

While we are pleased to honor the name of Professor Hunt, we are 
also delighted to know that we still have present with us to-day the 
only survivor of the Faculty presided over by dear old John MacLean^ 
and whose honored members instructed our class from i86t to 1865. 
Henry Clay Cameron, who was our Professor in Greek, is present to-day 
to bid us welcome and give us kindly greeting. His form is as erect 
and his eye as bright as it was when we parted from him upon the day 
of our graduation, forty years ago. We shall, one and all of us, ever 
regard Professor Cameron with the highest esteem and with our 
warmest friendship. 

We have a Hero-Martyr of our class, whose name is deserving of an 
inscription high upon the roll of honor in Princeton's Hall of Fame, 
William Edgar McChesney, a missionary to China, gave up his young 
life, at the age of twenty-seven, upon the Canton River, where he was 
shot to death at midnight by a Chinese pirate, while on the mission of 
the Prince of Peace and good will towards men. 

"Ah, broken was the golden bowl, 
The spirit flown forever; 
Let the bell toll, 
A saintly soul 

Floated on the Stygian river. ' ' 

Following in the footsteps of his father, William Jones Boone entered 
the ministry and devoted his life to noble missionary work in far-off 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 185 

China, the land of his birth. And in nineteen years after graduation 
he was ordained the fourth Bishop of Shanghai, where his honored 
father had been the first. 

Queen Victoria was once asked why her armies were so brave and 
successful in battle. She answered that it was because her soldiers 
believed in God and read their Bibles. 

Another of our classmates, William M. Imbrie, while a missionary in 
Japan, has performed a great work — he translated the New Testa- 
ment into the Japanese language. And no doubt this book and its 
teachings have wrought a wonderful influence upon the minds and 
character of the people of that country in christianizing them. The 
recent success of the army and navy of Japan may well be attributed 
to the influence of the book of books thus opened, and which teaches 
the belief in God, faith in immortality, and the power to maintain the 
right. 

Of course others followed in whose remarks we naturally had but 
little interest, and soon after the repast we silently slipped away and 
headed for Professor Cameron's residence. This was about 4 o'clock. 
The Professor was at his door and gave us a hearty welcome. Gather- 
ing in the parlor, we received a renewed welcome from his good wife, 
ivhose main regret was that she had no refreshments to offer us ; but 
what cared we when we had a mental feast to follow in our reunion 
with our old Professor in his library, surrounded by his books and 
classical pictures. It is needless to say that the welcome was a 
cordial one, and from the high opinion expressed of '65 by their old 
Professor none of us ever could have failed in recitation. He said he 
recalled with the greatest of pleasure his association with us, our uni- 
form courtesy of treatment and our general unexceptional conduct. If 
we ever did "cut" him he evidently was not aware of the fact, even 
if we knew it, and certainly time had made us dear to his heart. He 
paid us another compliment in the statement that he never had to 
condition one of us. He had evidently forgotten the fact that one 
member of the class made one recitation and passed the examination in 
Greek in the first session of Senior year, and stood eighth in class in 
that study, and the examination was on the only ten lines of the 
Greek play that he was able to read, and this only because he found 
that some other member of the class had been examined on that 
passage. 

The Class Supper. — Seventeen members sat down at the class 
supper in University Hall, at 7 o'clock, and the table was certainly 
a beautiful one, and its beauty was chiefly due to the elegant floral 
display presented to the class by the wife of our classmate Hunt. 
McCammon sat at the head, and on his right were Abert, Kelly, Logan 
English, Butler, Pennington and Vail, and on his left were Hunt, F 



l86 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

Greene, Arrowsmith, McClellan, F. Schenck, Calkins, J. Greene and 
Leggett. The Secretary had the foot of the table to himself. Grace 
was said by McClellan. Keen could not be with us, unfortunately, 
and Leggett left during the evening. After the supper ' ' Paide ' ' spoke 
briefly, rejoicing that he could be with us once more, and, while sick- 
ness and affliction had been severe in his family, he had never been 
sick a day since he left college so that he could not work. He had 
worked hard all his life, and he had preached a good many sermons, 
which he hoped had borne appropriate fruit. He was sorry that he 
had to leave us to catch a train, and expressed the sincere hope that 
we would all be spared so that we might meet again in five years, and, 
if not, that we might meet around the throne of the Master. It goes 
without saying that we were sorry that ' ' Paide" had to leave. 

All the way from Havana, Cuba, came J. Greene, who, although in 
this country on church business, had his leave of absence extended 
that he might be with us at the supper. In an exceedingly interest- 
ing manner he told of his life in the southern island. It was a long 
time since he had met with the class, and he was surprised to see so 
little changes in the members. There was the same love and 
interest in each other, somewhat increasing, if possible, year by year, 
and he had looked forward eagerly for the way to be clear for him to be 
with us. Until within a few weeks it seemed doubtful if he could see 
us at all, but the call to the General Assembly at Winona this year 
gave him the unexpected chance to visit Princeton. In the middle of 
his seminary course he went to New York City to a Missionary Chapel, 
and finished his studies in a Theological Seminary at New York. Sub- 
sequently he was pastor of a church in Brooklyn, from which he was 
called to a Staten Island church, where during his eight years there he 
built a strong church, to which fortunately "Paide" Leggett was 
called. The Board of Missions called on him to go to Mexico in 188 1. 
After spending a little over two years there he returned to this country, 
as he found he could not educate his children suitably in Mexico. In 
1892 he returned to Mexico for a while, afterward moving to Fort 
Dodge, Iowa, and building up a church there. In the course of time 
someone was wanted to go to Porto Rico, and he was sent there, where 
now there is a Presbytery of ten preaching stations and about 300 
church members. Stibsequently he was sent to Havana as Superin- 
tendent of the Presbyterian Missions in the Cuban territory. He is 
anxious to build a suitable church in Havana, as the main objection to 
the Protestant religion by the people there is not so much the doctrine, 
as that the place of worship is so insignificant. The American Tract 
Society wanted to issue a child's paper in the Spanish language, and 
the editorial work has fallen upon his shoulders. He has six children, 
four boys and two girls. 

J. Greene's story of his life abroad will be better told in his narrative 
under an appropriate heading. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 187 

McCammon spoke of an occurrence in the college course. There 
was a cut in Greek in Sophomore year, in which all participated except 
J. Greene and Dr. Logan; to which J. Greene replied that he thought 
Logan was kept in his room. McCammon said that Logan was a man 
of strong convictions, and he did not think he would go against his 
convictions if he thought his dvity called him. Calkins explained how 
Logan got out of his room, and how he was held back after all. To 
this Logan explained why he opposed the cut. J. Greene also ex- 
plained why he could not cut. much as he might have liked to do so, 
on account of his special relations to Dr. MacLean. Joe Colton was 
also opposed to the cut. Calkins was called upon, and said that he 
had never been able to be here before; he had always wanted to come, 
but duties prevented, and he never allowed a personal pleasure to pre- 
vent him from attending to duty. Called in 1868 to a church in Bucks 
county, he remained there five years, and through the influence of 
McClellan he was called to New Castle, Pa., where he was pastor for 
twenty-seven years. He told of his life there and the various difficul- 
ties he encountered. Any successes that he had in his work seemed 
to be diie mainly to his gift of peacemaking, and he had come to the 
conclusion that this was his vocation — a peacemaker — as well as a 
preacher. He had so much of this to do in various ways, not only in 
his church, but in adjacent churches in the Presbytery the difficulties 
were turned over to him to adjust. In response to a question he spoke 
of his old chum Curtis, of '64, now a pastor in Kansas. 

In response to a call F. Schenck gave his reminiscences. From Rocky 
Hill to college he came generally on horseback, and even galloped. 
Since that day he has become a Professor in the New Brunswick 
Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church. Once he had been 
a lawyer, then he studied for the ministry, and now has been Professor 
of Practical Theology in the Rutgers Theological Seminary of New 
Brunswick, and temporary Professor of Philosophy in the College. 
He has five children, two boys and three daughters. One of his sons 
is in Rutgers owing to the present state of affairs, much as he would 
like to send him to his Alma Mater. He hoped that we might all 
gather again after another five years. 

It was natural that Abert should be called upon to add to our feast 
of memories. He remembered distinctly when he first came to college. 
He called attention to the fact that Whig Hall's motto was * ' Literiae 
Amicitia Mores, ' ' but he never felt what that second word in the motto 
meant more forcibly than to-day; he never believed that such friend- 
ships could exist until he had reached the present time. He hoped that 
we might often meet again. This feeling began when he was a simple 
Freshman, and it has been growing ever since. The ties of Princeton 
to him are of the strongest. His father and other relatives had gradu- 
ated from this college, and he was one of seven in a family to graduate 
at Princeton. He had always been a hard-working lawyer, and tried 



l88 HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

to be as good a one as possible. He endeavored to teach men in their 
Hves to be upright, and to be moral in their transactions, doing right 
as far as lay in their power. To-night we have heard from those 
whose occupation is saving souls; the law too often seeks to gain 
dollars. During the past five years he had the desire to save a human 
life, if possible, and he was glad to say he succeeded in so doing. He 
had saved a young man's life for killing his stepfather in defense of 
his mother. The case was taken up out of charity ; he fought it for six 
months, studying all points possible to help the young man. He did 
succeed in saving him from the gallows, although he was sent to the 
penitentiary for twenty months. He wanted to save the life of an 
humble creature, and he was now satisfied he had accomplished the 
deed. 

On motion it was voted to hold the next reunion five years from 
to-night. Abert was chosen as Vice-President of the class, and Vail 
was elected Treasurer. 

Joe: "We have a classmate here who is a mind-reader, Abert 
whispers to me that he is sure ' Mose ' Kelly has a poem up his 
sleeve or somewhere. ' ' 

Abert: "Yes, I think so, though I have had no intimation of it 
from any one. ' ' 

Joe : ' ' Out with it, * Mose, ' if you have it. ' ' 

Mose: "I have thought you had all had enough of my jingle. I 
am reminded of a farmer who said to another, ' Hey, Seth, an' how's 
crops and prospects?' 'Crops is bad,' replied Seth. 'As I said to 
my old mule, Jinny, this mornin' when I was a-givin' her her feed, says 
I, I says, "It's a good job for you," I says, "that you ain't a camel, 
for this is the last straw, ' ' I says. ' So this is the last rhyme. ' ' 

h- SiNG-SoNG Sentiment. 

Rendered at the Fortieth Reunion of the Class Sixty-five, Princeton 

University, June ij, igo^. 
t 

Somebody at the phone! "Hello!" 

"Who's that?" Why, as I'm alive! 
' ' Oh, Central! Get right on, right on!" " Yes — ' Mose.' '^ 

By Jove! It is Sixty-five. 

Hello! again, you fellows there; 

I'm wid ye at the call 
For the Fortieth Reunion 

'Neath the shades of Nassau Hall. 

Oh, the memory waves of sound along 

The wires which stretch o'er years! 
How the phone sends messages tender 

To our old expectant ears! ; 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 189 

Just think of it — forty years agone! 

Thank God! we are here, alive, 
To meet — to greet — to remember 

In the Class of Sixty-five. 

Others may speak of the old, old times 

Back o'er many a changing year; 
I have but one single topic — 

The occasion. We are here. 

That so many classmates have gathered 

Is somewhat of a surprise; 
The surprise became much greater 

When we came to ' ' swap our lies. ' ' 

The'day, the hour, the meeting, 

It took long time to arrive ; 
We give one Toast — one Sentiment — • 

The Class of Sixty-five. 

Old Pope wrote in his ' ' Dunciad ' ' 

A long, long time ago — 
Not a Pius pope, nor a Boniface, 

Neither Gregory, nor Leo — 

But Pope, who like old "Mose" "writ lines' : 

His friends all called him ' * Mister. ' ' 
He liked it — in his character scores 

His object was to blister. 

He deduced dunces, such as we 

Were in the Sophomore year, 
In Junior gush and Senior dig. 

And made his meaning clear. 

' ' Fair, fat and forty, ' ' once he wrote 

Of old Ben Jonson, bold; 
And these three things are true of this 

Class now twoscore years old. 

We've made fair showing all these years, 

Our fat has somewhat grown; 
At forty, nothing to regret. 

We've reaped what we have sown. 

We blush to sound our praises. 

For better things we strive ; 
The future beams with promise 

For the Class of Sixty-five. 



IQO HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. 

In five years let us gather again, 

Strong, hearty, bhthe, ahve — 
Get out every hving member 

Of the Class of Sixty-five. 

Samuel P. Kelly ("Mose"). 

About 10 o'clock, '65 arose from their feast and went]out into ^the 
night. 

ALMA MATER. 

The long four years have nearly past, 
That envied time has come at last; 
And looking to the shining crown 
Which may by each of us be won, 
We launch our boat upon the sea 
And bid farewell to friends and thee, 
Our Alma Mater. 

Hope, pointing with her mystic wand, 
(ruides us to gleaming goals beyond; 
And "Let your country's, God's and truth 
Be all the ends of aiming youth," 
She says: ' ' Each to himself be true! ' ' 
And thus do we most honor you, 
Our Alma Mater. 

The time has come when we must part. 
Grief settles sadly round each heart ; 
Then grasps each brother by the hand. 
Dissolves the Ainion of our band; 
We launch our boat upon life's sea. 
And bid farewell to friends and thee, 
Our Alma Mater. 

William Stone Abert. 
June, 1865: 

LEST WE FORGET. 

There were ninety members on the class roll during the college life. 
Thirty-nine were Whigs and forty-one Clios. Forty-three entered 
Freshman, thirty-three Sophomore, thirteen Junior, and one Senior. 
Among the list were twenty- three ministers, eighteen lawyers, five 
physicians, eight entered business, six were teachers, two were civil 
engineers and one was an editor. Sixty-five were certified to by Dr. 
Giger, Clerk of the Faculty, as having graduated, as by his report 
dated May 20th, 1865. Hunt graduated first, and Grummon second. 



HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1865. I9I 

As a rule, those whose sons went to college followed their father's 
example, and I cannot find that those who did enter Princeton failed to 
do credit to their parents. 

In the Faculty of Princeton we have been represented by Hunt 
for a long time, and of our Professors, Dr. Cameron, now Professor 
Emeritus, is the only survivor. May his name be a synonym for 
longevity.* 

Our thanks are certainly due to "Mose" Kelly for the permanent 
preservation of so many faces that will never be gathered all together 
again this side of eternity. 

The class has held reunions every five years since graduation, and 
will probably do so in the future until one man wanders into the 
campus and looks for others, all of whom have fallen asleep. 

Looking over the roll, we find much to be proud of. The distin- 
guished and eminent are numerous and the honors have fallen upon 
many. Those of us who are plain, everyday people can congratulate 
themselves on being classmates and friends of those whose fame is 
more extended. All must admit that Sixty-five is a brotherhood in the 
truest sense. 

* Since the above was prepared Prof. Cameron passed away in November, 1906. 



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CHARLES CHAUNCEY BACKUS, 

WILLIAM JONES BOONE, 

THOMAS JOHN CHEW, 

JOSEPH S. COLTON, 

EDWARD GRANT COOK, 

CHARLES S. DEWING, 

THOMAS DOBBIN, 

WILLIAM S. FARRAND, 

ALEXANDER GIBBY, 

WILLIAM BREWER GRIFFITH, 

JOHN K. HASLAM, 

JOHN DUNBAR HEWITT, 

FRANCIS KITCHELL HOWELL, 

PETER JACOBUS, 

UPSHUR JOHNSTON, 

WILLIAM Y. JOHNSON, 

THEODORE A. LEGGETT, 

WILLIAM EDGAR McCHESNEY, 

J. FLAVEL McGEE, 

ARCHIBALD McINTIRE MacMARTIN, 

ISAAC BUSBY MULFORD, 

GEORGE WASHINGTON NEAL, 

THOMAS RAFTERY, 

SAMUEL WINCHESTER REEVES, 

RANDOLPH STEPHEN ROACHE. 

JAMES ROBBINS SCHENCK, 

EDWARD HOUSTON SCOTT, 

ROBERT SLOSS, 

JAMES NEWBOLD STRATTON, 

JOHN L. THOMPSON, 

JAMES B. TOLER, 

SAMUEL S. WALLEN, 

GEORGE WILLIAM WELLS, 

WILLIAM DELANY WETHERILL. 



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ERRATUM 

[See page 68.] 

Converse denies that he is a "Christian SociaUst" or any other 
kind of a Sociahst, or that there is any Sociahsm, Christian or unchrist- 
ian, in any of his books. He asserts that there is no such thing as 
"Christian Sociahsm," because Christianity affirms the full inspiration 
of the Mosaic code, a full system of national law; and no one has ever 
found any »Socialism in it. His latest book, written last summer, is 
entitled "There Shalt Be No Poor," a title borrowed from Deuteronomy 
15 : 5. His work will be mentioned in the new edition of the Schaff- 
Herzog Biblical Encyclopedia, which Funk & Wagnalls have in pre- 
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